Abstract
This paper focuses on the archaeological and architectural analysis of the Late Roman settlement of Umm al-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis, Egypt). The available information on the archaeological remains of this site includes on-site hand-made sketches, photographs, 3D surveys. The final aim of this specific research is the interpretation and reconstruction of the historical context of this site by combining sources of different nature. This paper presents the methodology employed to elaborate the 3D data in order to achieve a digital restitution of the archaeological map of the entire settlement, which covers an area of about one hectare. The starting point was the elaboration of the close-range photogrammetric survey of the Fortified Settlement that allowed the creation of a 3D point cloud of the whole area, based on the elaboration of over 5,000 photographs, from which a complete and detailed metric model was derived. This 3D model played a key role to extract metric information and to reconstruct the geometrical structure of the settlement, but this result could only be achieved thanks to the successful combination of the digital data with the hand-made sketches and the pictures taken in situ in the recent past. This paper represents an outcome of the project LIFE (Living In a Fringe Environment), funded by the ERC CoGrant 681673.
Highlights
The evolution of survey techniques underwent a significant turn with the introduction of computerbased 3D surveying and modelling [1] [2], that are rapidly spreading in the archaeological practice [3] [4]
The case-study is the set of survey data collected in the last twenty years at the site of Umm al-Dabadib, a Late Roman settlement lying at the outskirts of the Kharga Oasis, in Egypt’s Western Desert, that include hand-made sketches based on direct measures, photographs, topographic measurements, and ground-based photogrammetric acquisitions
A better understanding of how this large settlement was conceived, planned and built will represent an important basis for the research of historians and Egyptologists investigating the events that took place along the desert frontier of the Empire in the Late Roman Period
Summary
IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 949 (2020) 012072 doi:10.1088/1757-899X/949/1/012072 Interpretation of archaeological data based on direct and remote retrieval of information F Fiorillo, S Galli, C Rossi, Department of Architecture, Built environment and Construction engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via G. Ponzio 31, Milan, Italy
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