Imaging the Egyptian Obelisk at Kingston Lacy

The obelisk that stands in the grounds of the National Trust property at Kingston Lacy, Dorset, was brought from Egypt in 1821 by William John Bankes. Known as the Philae obelisk, it has hieroglyphic inscriptions on the tapered granite column and Greek on the pedestal. In a multidisciplinary project to mark the success of the Philae comet mission, the inscriptions have been digitised by both reflectance transform imaging and 3D scanning. Novel imaging techniques have been developed to stitch together the separate RTI fields into a composite RTI for each face of the obelisk in registration with the geometric structure represented by the 3D point cloud. This will provide the basis for both paleographic examination of the inscriptions and visualisation of the monument as a whole.

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Lindsay MacDonald

Jane Masséglia

Charles Crowther

Ben Altshuler

Sarah Norodom

Andrew Cuffley

James Grasby

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 252-260

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[0001]Faculty of Engineering

University College London

[0002]Department of Classics

Oxford University

[0003]Department of Classics

Oxford University

[0004]Department of Classics

Oxford University

[0005]Department of Classics

Oxford University

[0006]GOM UK Limited

Coventry

[0007]South-West Region

The National Trust

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.27

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] L AdkinsR Adkins 2001 The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs HarperCollins London

[2] E. A. W Budge 1904 The decrees of Memphis and Canopus Paul, Trench and Trübner London

[3] S. M Burstein 1985 The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII Cambridge University Press Cambridge

[4] G EarlK MartinezT Malzbender 2010 Archaeological applications of polynomial texture mapping: analysis, conservation and representation J. Archaeological Science 37 8 2040 2050

[5] I. E. S Edwards 1980 Philae Resurrected Unesco Paris

[6] L. W MacDonald 2014 Colour and Directionality in Surface Reflectance Proc. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)

[7] W MacQuitty 1976 Island of Isis: Philae, temple of the Nile Macdonald and Jane's London

[8] R Parkinson 1999 Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment U. Calif. Press London

[9] H Salt 1825 Essay on Dr. Young’s and M. Champollion’s Phonetic System of Hieroglyphs London

[10] E Vassilika 1989 Ptolemaic Philae Peeters Leuven

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