Imaging the Egyptian Obelisk at Kingston Lacy

Abstract

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.

Contributors

Lindsay MacDonald

Jane Masséglia

Charles Crowther

Ben Altshuler

Sarah Norodom

Andrew Cuffley

James Grasby

Conference

Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 252-260

Affiliations

Faculty of Engineering

University College London

Department of Classics

Oxford University

Department of Classics

Oxford University

Department of Classics

Oxford University

Department of Classics

Oxford University

GOM UK Limited

Coventry

South-West Region

The National Trust

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.27

Copyright statement: © Lindsay MacDonald Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2015, UK

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

Conference acronym: EVA

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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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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing