Archaeology Applications for 3-D Data Collection, Analysis, and Applications --

Modern turned pot

Cuneiform tablet

These images show data from a modern turned pot and a cast of a cuneiform tablet in the collection of the Oriental Institute in Chicago Illinois. Dimensions of the tarblet are approximately 42mm x 36mm x 17mm.

Since our data analysis tools allow the user to extract small regions of interest, and to continue the geometric analysis just on those regions, it seems that it would be possible to measure 3-D shapes of individual signs or their components, possibly leading to a tool for paleography.

Higher resolution scan of two lines of cuneiform text

For many more results using cuneiform tablets, see:

• Adaptive local extrema equalization (automatically highlighting signs)
• Adaptive histogram equalization (applied to both conventional 2-D imagery and also to range map visualization imagery)
• Raytracing results for range maps of cuneiform tablets.

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