November 2021
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December 2014
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Within the framework of the project " Tracing the presence of more prehistoric rock art sites, similar to the ones already discovered and studied by the Belgian team in this same region at Qurta and el-Hosh (Huyge et al 2007, 2011, 2012; Huyge 2009). This contribution focuses uniquely on a new component introduced to the 2014 mission: the development and testing of HD imaging techniques for rapid and accurate field recording of the sites with petroglyphs. Multi-light reflectance and 3D photogrammetry techniques were tested on their reliability and operability for a survey in the field.
January 2014
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De Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG) bewaren een rijke en wereldvermaarde collectie van zegelmateriaal uit het Oude Nabije Oosten. De verzameling omvat stempel- en rolzegels, zegelafdrukken en verzegelingen, toebehorend aan zeer uiteenlopende culturen en daterend van het begin van hun productie tot aan de Romeinse periode. Ze illustreren de hele historische ontwikkeling van een type object dat unieke inzichten biedt in de economische, culturele, milieu- en politieke geschiedenis van deze uitgestrekte regio. In de loop der jaren zijn veel van deze zegels en zegelafdrukken bestudeerd en gepubliceerd, maar een allesomvattende herziening van het gehele corpus drong zich sinds vele jaren op. Deze bijdrage stelt de eerste resultaten voor van deze wetenschappelijke en museologische oefening.
January 2014
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5 Citations
Since 2009, the Belgian Archaeological Mission to Elkab from the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) has shifted its attention from the rock necropolis to the settlement area of the Upper Egyptian pharaonic town site of Elkab. Two excavation seasons in 2009 and 2010 revealed the presence of a vast habitation area dating to the late Early Dynastic Period and the early Old Kingdom, situated within the Late Period ‘Great Walls’ of Elkab and immediately west of the temple area. A 2 by 2 meter test pit was excavated in this area in 2009-2010, to a depth of almost 4 meters below the actual surface. The results indicated that the habitation dates back to Predynastic times and may even have originated in the Badarian period, suggesting that the site of Elkab was continuously inhabited for over 1500 years during late prehistoric and early historic times. The 2012 excavation campaign aimed to expand exploration and understanding of the Predynastic occupation at Elkab. This contribution presents the preliminary results of that field season.
January 2014
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1,482 Reads
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3 Citations
The Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels (RMAH) boast a rich and world-renowned collection of glyptic material from the Ancient Near East. The collection consists of stamp and cylinder seals, seal impressions and sealings, originating from a broad range of cultures and dating from the beginning of their production down to the Roman period. They illustrate the entire historical development of a type of object that provides unique insights into the economic, cultural, enviromental and political history of a vast region. Over the years, many of these seals, seal impressions and sealings have been studied and published, but a comprehensive revision of the entire corpus imposed itself since long date. This contribution presents the first results of this scientific and museological exercise.
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... Obtaining small-scale elevation maps today can be approached in two ways. First, using cameras and photogrammetric methods [Bryan & Chandler, 2008.;Hameeuw et al., 2014.;Meijer, 2015.;Lesvignes et al., 2019.;Zotkina, 2019.]. On the other hand, it is also noticeable that there are increasingly rapid advances in the miniaturisation and availability of stand-alone laser scanners [Trinks et al., 2005.;Davis et al., 2017.;Palonka et al., 2021.;Kęsik et al., 2022.]. Both paths of expanding methods of documenti ...
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December 2014
... While there seems to be broad agreement on the interpretation of the Lower Egyptian evidence, the socioeconomic basis of what is often considered the first Predynastic culture in the Nile Valley, the Badarian, is disputed. Sites were first uncovered at a series of cemetery and habitation locales along the desert margins of the Badari region, but they are now also represented farther south at Elkab (Claes et al. 2014), and, most substantially, at Maghar Dendera (Hendrickx et al. 2001). These communities are often characterized as the first village-based agriculturalists in Upper Egypt, despite the fact that the scale of cereal production seems to have been limited, while the occupation middens demonstrate rather ephemeral architecture more akin to temporary camping grounds than to settled villages (Wengrow 2006, pp. ...
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January 2014
... Its basis is the Polynomial Texture Map (PTM), a model of the surface properties at each pixel calculated from a series of photographs taken while only the illumination is altered (Malzbender et al. 2000(Malzbender et al. , 2001. The speediest approach is to mount the camera within a hemispherical dome where the lights are automatically fired (Willems et al. 2005;Dellepiane et al. 2006;Earl et al. 2011;Hameeuw and Willems 2011), but because such systems are costly and limit the size of the subject, museums with substantial collections of small artifacts, such as cuneiform tablets, seals, or painted vases, have been the most likely to invest in the equipment (Earl et al. 2011;Boschloos et al. 2012;Artal-Isbrand and Klausmeyer 2013). The "Highlight RTI" method greatly reduces cost by replacing the dome with a handheld light, making the equipment portable and suited to a wider range of projects (Mudge et al. 2005(Mudge et al. , 2006(Mudge et al. , 2012. ...
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January 2014