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Herculaneum 3D Scan: free online 3D point clouds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:28:00 +0000

This community hasn't been so active for a while but I thought that maybe in these coronavirus times, it might be useful to share some of the online material being made available for the Vesuvian sites.

Let me start with Herculaneum 3D Scan which is making 3D point clouds available of a series of areas within the site. The first one - the entire site - is already online and a new house will be added each Wednesday (this week the House of the Beautiful Courtyard). Please note that these are not just the usual "virtual tours" but the technical data that can be used by scholars and practitioners to view the buildings, measure them and even extract sections. As a result they are best viewed from a laptop, rather than a phone.

Official description from the website of Herculaneum Archaeological Park:

“Herculaneum 3D SCAN” is a small preview of data collected as part of the long-term programme for the documentation and monitoring of the archaeological site of Herculaneum made possible by the extraordinary support of the Packard Humanities Institute. The intention is to share results with a larger and more diverse community including scholars, heritage professionals and the wider public. It can be seen as a shared experiment exploring not only how people engage with cultural heritage through digital resources, a reality well known to the general public, but also the benefits of providing working tools for the heritage sector.
The 3D point clouds: The 3D point clouds were acquired to inform conservation planning work over the last five years. The data relates to some of the most important domus of the ancient Herculaneum. These are not “virtual reconstructions” but real three-dimensional scans: very high-density 3D point clouds acquired by 3D laser scanners and photogrammetric drone images. It is possible for the user to relocate within the 3D clouds and visit the different ancient spaces of a Roman house virtually. They cann measure distances, surfaces, volumes or even extract sections. The results of these activities can then be exported in the most common software formats.

https://ercolano.beniculturali.it/herculaneum3dscan/

noreply@blogger.com (Jackie and Bob at pompeiiinpictures) — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 22:59:00 +0000

You can continue to use pompeiiinpictures.eu

Well the Brexit deadline of 31st October came and went.

The good news is that we have found a solution that will allow the continued use of pompeiiinpictures.eu now and long into the future unaffected by Brexit.

We will update you if anything changes in the future but we believe the issue is sorted once and for all.

We wish our .eu users many happy hours and years on pompeiiinpictures.eu.

Jackie and Bob

pompeiiinpictures.eu users and Brexit

noreply@blogger.com (Jackie and Bob at pompeiiinpictures) — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:09:00 +0000

If the UK leaves the EU with no deal on 31st October

If you are using pompeiiinpictures.eu and the UK leaves the EU with no deal on 31st October the EU will arbitrarily close down all .eu websites registered with UK postal addresses, like ours, on 1st January 2020.

This is because a web site registered for a UK citizen with a UK address will no longer be allowed.

As we are two pensioners with only one home, in the UK, we do not have access to an EU address/subsidiary.

From the 1st January pompeiiinpictures.eu will stop working

Normally we would automatically redirect you to one of our other sites but if pompeiiinpictures.eu is not working neither will any redirection.

This will not help you if you find us via an existing pompeiiinpictures.eu search engine link as you will be told the site does not exist and denied access.

We are powerless to do anything about this petty, farcical state of affairs.

What can you do?

All we can suggest is that you start to use pompeiiinpictures.com or pompeiiinpictures.org instead and change any browser bookmarks.

If you have a published reference or bookmark with pompeiiinpictures.eu in it, the simplest way to deal with it is to change the eu to org (or eu to com/pompeiiinpictures).

If the UK has a deal

The same issue still arises but the site will be closed down after a year or so, whatever is the Brexit deal transition period.

Our apologies

We know a lot of you in Europe use pompeiiinpictures.eu.

Please accept our apologies for this situation which is not of our making and we hope you continue to find pompeiiinpictures as valuable as you have in the past.

If you have an ideas on how to better tackle this pompeiiinpictures.eu problem we would welcome any input.

Jackie and Bob

noreply@blogger.com (Kenneth Lapatin) — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:46:00 +0000

Villa dei Papiri Exhibition

Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri
at the Getty Villa, June 26-October 28, 2019

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/villa_papiri/

JRA 32 (2019): Notes on the elogium of a benefactor at Pompeii

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:13:00 +0000

News from the Getty Conservation Institute

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:53:00 +0000

Public Programs

The Future of the Past at Herculaneum

Getty Villa
Thursday, June 27, 2019, at 7:30 pm
Auditorium

Francesco Sirano, director of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum (PA-ERCO), discusses the past, present, and future of the site buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Excavated in 1738, a decade before nearby Pompeii, Herculaneum presents challenges and opportunities different from its more famous neighbor. Sirano addresses exciting new finds, conservation issues, and recent efforts to boost public awareness and engagement.

Free. Advance ticket required.

Of related interested:
Conservation of the Architectural Surfaces in the Tablinum of the House of the Bicentenary, Herculaneum. This report details GCI's collaborative project with PA-ERCO and the Herculaneum Conservation Project on the conservation of the tablinum from 2011 through 2016.

Herculaneum Society scholarships

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:01:00 +0000

The Herculaneum Society is pleased to announce two scholarships of £1500 for registered postgraduate or postdoctoral students working on topics related to Herculaneum. One award will be for papyrology while the other can be on any topic. Deadline 23 April 2019; more details at www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk .

L. Vollaro. "Su due sculture muliebri da Beneventum al Museo Provinciale del Sannio", in Oebalus, 13, 2018, pp. 133-151.

noreply@blogger.com (Armando Cristilli) — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:00:00 +0000

Presentazione del volume "Symplegmata. Studi di archeologia dedicati a Simona Minichino"

noreply@blogger.com (Armando Cristilli) — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:34:00 +0000

An Introduction to the Drunken Satyr, A Rare Roman Bronze Being Studied and Conserved at the Getty Villa

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:57:00 +0000

Posted on behalf on Kenneth Lapatin:

In advance of the exhibition on the Villa dei Papiri that will open at the Getty Villa in June, the bronze statue of a Drunken Satyr has arrived in Malibu from MANN, and we have written a blog with an embedded video that might well be of interest: An Introduction to the Drunken Satyr

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:29:00 +0000

The journal "Vesuviana: An International Journal of Archaeological and Historical Studies on Pompeii and Herculaneum" has just issued the latest edition (NB: listed as 2017). The contents are as follows:

Domenico Camardo, Mario Notomista, La Casa a graticcio di Ercolano (III, 13-15). La struttura dell'edificio ed i suoi restauri;

Kaius Tuori, Laura Nissin, Juhana Heikonen, Samuli Simelius, The (in)discreet charm of the bourgeoisie: Public and private spheres in a Roman house in Herculaneum (Casa del Tramezzo di Legno);

Aldo Cinque, Giolinda Irollo, La marcitura sotterranea delle antiche cortine murarie: primi esiti di studio su un fenomeno tipico di Herculaneum;

Michele Stefanile, I Lollii pompeiani: alcune osservazioni epigrafiche.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:25:00 +0000

A new edition of the Rivista di Studi Pompeiani has been published in both digital and hard copy, with the following contents:

Pier Giovanni Guzzo, Enzo Lippolis in memoriam
Alessandro Gallo, Un rilievo marmoreo inedito dalla Regio I di Pompei
Hélène Eristov, Bernard Parzysz, Une intrigante lame d' ivoire pompéienne
Domenico Russo, La Palestra Sannitica di Pompei nelle vedute del XIX secolo
Patrizio Pensabene, Villa A di Oplontis: Elementi della decorazione architettonica in marmo
Valerio Bruni, La Casa VII 16 1, 12-14. Un caso di studio sulle trasformazioni delle case a terrazza dell'Insula Occidentalis a Pompei
Vincenzo Scarano Ussani, Cibo e meretricio. Osterie e panifi ci del I secolo d.C.
Michele Di Gerio, Studio sulla fi gura di Iapige dell' aff resco Enea ferito' : dal Pater familias al medicus militare
Klara De Decker, Kaiserzeitliche Bronzekrüge mit reliefi erten Schlangenkoerper aus Pompeji und Herculaneum
Ernesto De Carolis, Roberta Pardi, Indagini archeologiche nel territorio del Comune di Pompei (anni 2013-2016)
Ernesto De Carolis, Francesco Esposito, Diego Ferrara, Appunti sull' uso delle grappe a Pompei: storia di un metodo e documentazione fotografi ca ottocentesca
Lavinia De Rosa, Il mosaico dei fi losofi tra Napoli nobilissima e documentazione d' archivio
Simona Formola, Strategie decorative in ambienti di rappresentanza in posizione planimetrica inusuale: l' esempio ercolanese

NOTIZIARIO
Uffi cio Scavi di Pompei. Attività 2017 (G. Stefani)
Pompei scavi, Arredamento, design e grafi ca per gli ambienti dell' ingresso di piazza Esedra (I. Bergamasco)
Studio archeozoologico e isolamento di DNA antico' sui reperti ossei di cani pompeiani (G. Oliva)
Uffi cio Scavi di Oplontis. Attività 2017 (I. Bergamasco)
Uffi cio Scavi di Boscoreale. Notiziario 2017 (A.M. Sodo)
Il nuovo Parco Archeologico di Ercolano. Introduzione (F. Sirano)
Le attività del 2017 del Parco Archeologico di Ercolano (Team tecnico-scientifi co del Parco Archeologico di Ercolano, relazione di A. Santaniello, M. Caso)
L' Herculaneum Conservation Project nell' anno 2017. L' Herculaneum Conservation Project e il nuovo Parco Archeologico di Ercolano (Team dell' Herculaneum Conservation Project: D. Camardo, S. Court, A. D' Andrea, A. Laino, P. Pesaresi, J. Thompson)
I rinvenimenti nell' area dell' antica spiaggia di Ercolano e le dinamiche dell' eruzione del 79 d.C. (D. Camardo, M. Notomista)
Uffi cio Scavi di Stabia. Attività anno 2017(G. Bonifacio)
Conservation works on wall paintings in Villa Arianna at Stabiae carried out by the Academy of Fine arts in Warsaw in 2017 (K. Chmielewski, J. Burdajewicz)
Villa Arianna, Stabiae: interventi di pulitura, scavo e restauro nell' ambiente 71 e nell' area esterna 73 condotti dal Museo Ermitage di San Pietroburgo (P. Gardelli, A. Butyagin)
Il progetto catalogazione Tess Stabiae. Dati acquisiti e prospettive di ricerca (C. Ariano)
Post -Ad 79. Roman Glass from Campania: the assemblage from the villa baths at Masseria De Carolis (Pollena Trocchia). A preliminary Report ( Th. M. Penn)

DISCUSSIONI E RECENSIONI
DISCUSSIONI
Note sull' agro di Cicciano nell' antichità (W. Johannowsky)

RECENSIONI
Mario Grimaldi, Pictores. Mani d' artista, dagli aff reschi pompeiani alla pittura contemporanea, Napoli 2016 (A. Varone)
Anna Rocco, Catalogo della suppellettile bronzea di uso domestico del Museo Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli 2017 (Presentazione, G. Cerulli Irelli)
G.V. Pelagalli, M. Di Gerio, Il cane nell' arte pompeiana, Napoli 2017 (A. Anastasio)
Alessandro Gallo, Pompei. La monumentale dimora degli Epidii (IX 1, 20), Napoli 2013 (Laurentino García y García)

noreply@blogger.com (Armando Cristilli) — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:02:00 +0000

CALL FOR PAPERS "LAND EXPERIENCE IN ANTIQUITY": 15 OTTOBRE 2018 -20 gennaio 2019/ October 15th 2018 - January 20th 2019

SCADENZA/DEADLINE: 20/1/2019

DATA CONGRESSO/CONGRESS DATE: 15-16-17/05/2019

LUOGO/LOCATION: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Roma – Tor Vergata (Roma, Italy)

ORGANIZZATORI/ORGANIZERS: Prof. Fabio Stok ; Dr. Armando Cristilli ; Dr. Alessia Gonfloni

INFO: landexperienceinantiquity@gmail.com

WEB: https://landexperienceinantiquity.wordpress.com

Games, banquets, handouts, and the population of Pompeii as deduced from a new tomb inscription

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:08:00 +0000

A new article by Massimo Ossana about the newly-discovered inscription on a tomb near the Porta Stabia at Pompeii will be published in October in the Journal of Roman Archaeology. The article is entitled, “Games, banquets, handouts, and the population of Pompeii as deduced from a new tomb inscription”. The full text of the inscription has been made available by JRA and can be seen here: http://DiggingintoJRA.wordpress.com

Herculaneum in Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Jackie and Bob at pompeiiinpictures) — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:02:00 +0000

Herculaneum in Pictures

The HerculaneuminPictures plan showing areas covered.
An interactive version can be found our web site www.herculaneum.uk

Jackie and Bob are pleased to announce the launch of HerculaneuminPictures as a companion site to our PompeiiinPictures offering. See www.herculaneum.uk Access is free and may only be used for academic, personal and not for profit purposes.

We would like to thank Michael Binns and Buzz Ferebee for their many photographs that have helped fill the gaps we had with our own.
We would also like to thank Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill for allowing us to use material from his book Herculaneum Past and Future
(Wallace-Hadrill, A. 2011. Herculaneum, Past and Future. London, Frances Lincoln.)

Please feel free to tell anyone or any institutions or publish anywhere you think may be interested.

Everything is covered but in places internal coverage is thinner where the location is under restoration.

It is a first edition, but will expand in content like pompeiiinpictures did with colleague help over the years and as the Parco Archeologico di Ercolano opens access to more areas.

All our Pompeii sites including www.pompeiiinpictures.com and www.pompeiiinpictures.org will continue to be available separately and the Herculaneum and Pompeii web sites will be linked so you can move between them, whenever you wish.

New Article: The Greek Graffiti of Herculaneum

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:25:00 +0000

Rebecca R. Benefiel andHolly M. Sypniewsk, The Greek Graffiti of Herculaneum. American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 122, No. 2 (April 2018), pp. 209–244

This article offers an overview of ancient Greek handwritten wall inscriptions, or graffiti, in the city of Herculaneum and the first contextual analysis of these inscriptions. First, we address how much Greek is found, where it appears, and what was being written in Greek. We then offer a discussion of Greek alphabets and personal names inscribed in Greek, which together account for half of the graffiti in Greek at Herculaneum. Finally, we examine Greek graffiti in context and discuss two locations in Herculaneum where the graffiti have survived and are still visible in situ. By presenting where Greek graffiti appear, what they contain, and how they communicate and interact with other texts, we aim to provide a more comprehensive picture of the distribution and context of Greek in Herculaneum and to offer new insights into the culture of writing in Campania.

SpaceLaw project is hiring post-docs and doctoral students!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:52:00 +0000

Kaius Tuori, who has directed the Public and Private in the Roman House project during the last few years, has a new project investigating the uses of public and private space in the Roman administration.

The new SpaceLaw project (Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition, spacelaw.fi), funded by the ERC, is hiring

1. two post-docs for three years, and

2. two doctoral students for four years

to investigate the spaces of Roman Republicanism at the University of Helsinki! Ancient historians, archaeologists, legal historians, Roman lawyers and the like are strongly encouraged to apply.
Here are the ads (with a more detailed description of the project):

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researchers-spaces-of-roman-republicanism

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/doctoral-students-spaces-of-roman-republicanism

The deadline is 15.4.

N.B. Feel free to spread the word!

New paper: Armando Cristilli, 'A proposito di una statua nello Hüftmanteltypus al Museo Storico Archeologico dell’Antica Nola' in Rivista di Studi Pompeiani, 28, 2017, pp. 105-111

noreply@blogger.com (Armando Cristilli) — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 21:19:00 +0000

https://www.academia.edu/35957004/A_proposito_di_una_statua_nello_H%C3%BCftmanteltypus_al_Museo_Storico_Archeologico_dellAntica_Nola

Book presentation: Strolling with power: the recent discoveries of the Garden of the Villa Arianna at Stabiae.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:53:00 +0000

Crowdfunding Campaign for the Ancient Graffiti Project

noreply@blogger.com (Herculaneum Society) — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:34:00 +0000

The Friends of Herculaneum Society is sponsoring a crowdfunding campaign in support of the wonderful Ancient Graffiti Project (www.ancientgraffiti.org). We're aiming to raise £13000 by 19 March to enable undergraduates from both sides of the ocean to go the Herculaneum this summer and participate in the collecting and publishing of the graffiti. One of the great things about this project is that the students are equal participants with academic staff in doing the research. They learn great skills and get super experience for the future. The Friends are matching the first £5000 of donations pound for pound so your donation is doubled. Please go to https://hubbub.org/p/ancientgraffiti and find out more. Consider making a donation - crowdfunding depends on lots of people pitching in - and also do please spread the word on your own network. American donors can contribute to the American Friends of Herculaneum website (www.herculaneumfriends.org) rather than donating through Hubbub, and get the tax deduction in the US. Grazie mille!
Bob Fowler for the Friends of Herculaneum

Book presentation: "Ercolano 1927-1961", 1 Dec 2017, Herculaneum Archaeological Park

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:54:00 +0000

New publication: Ercolano 1927-1961. L’impresa archeologica di Amedeo Maiuri

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:33:00 +0000

This volume is published in time to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the launch of excavations at Herculaneum by Amedeo Maiuri. Thanks to the Herculaneum Conservation Project which has been studying and conserving the archaeological site for over a decade, the authors have come into daily contact with the results of Maiuri' s extraordinary legacy of excavation and restoration that he carried out from 1927 to 1961. His ambitious dream to uncover the ancient Roman city was fulfilled by organizing every step of site works from excavation to restoration efficiently, through to the on-site display of the most significant finds. In this way the site became a sort of open-air museum in which the artefacts were contextualised; not just works of ancient art but mainly those finds which illustrated daily life in the past. Unfortunately, over the years as visitor numbers increased so did the risk of theft and damage to the objects, leading over time to their removal to storerooms. Maiuri' s innovative experiment to make Herculaneum an open-air museum was gradually forgotten.
The first part of the volume, by Domenico Camardo and Mario Notomista, follows the personal and professional life of Amedeo Maiuri, from his early experiences in Greece through to his return to Naples as superintendent, when he turned his attention to Herculaneum. There then follows a contribution by Paola Pesaresi who reconstructs how he organized his site works and discusses his restoration methodology at Herculaneum. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill' s chapter explores instead Maiuri' s extraordinary abilities as an advocate for Herculaneum, raising awareness of its significance among the general public. Massimo Osanna also focuses on Maiuri' s abilities as a communicator, but this time through the series of displays he set up within the archaeological spaces at Pompeii and Herculaneum. In the third part of the volume, the editors provide a full catalogue of the on-site displays that Maiuri created at Herculaneum, well illustrated with plans and archive images. The volume then finales with an extraordinary selection of over 130 archive photographs, most of them previously unpublished, that allow the reader greater understanding of Amedeo Maiuri' s major archaeological venture at Herculaneum.

Pompeii, a Different Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Arthur Stephens) — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:09:00 +0000

We are pleased to let you know that we have completed our project documenting the facades of the structures along Via dell'Abbondanza in Pompeii, and that our book describing the work has recently been published by Lockwood Press in the United States. The publisher's announcement below briefly describes the contents. We have also updated our project website (www.pompeiiperspectives.org) to be a companion to the book.

The North American book distributor is ISD, and the European distributor is the University of Exeter Press. The book is also available from Amazon USA, Amazon Canada and Amazon UK.

Jennifer Stephens & Arthur Stephens

Conference: Restaurando Pompeii, 6-7th April 2017

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:58:00 +0000

Pompeii Insula VI.1 the finds

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:51:00 +0000

I’m very pleased to announce that my report on the small finds and vessel glass from the 1995-2006 excavations in Insula VI.1 at Pompeii has just been published by Archaeopress in their Archaeopress Roman Archaeology series. This is accompanied by a digital component that the Archaeological Data Service is hosting. I’ve written a website to accompany the publication and that can be found at http://www.pompeivi1.com/

The website provides links to the publisher and the ADS resource, as well as the various papers that have already been published on the material. The most recent of those was ‘Recreation or decoration: what were the glass counters from Pompeii used for?’, Papers of the British School at Rome 84 (2016), 157-77.