3D-Scanning im Großen Tempel, Yazılıkaya, Nişantaşı und dem Löwentor

The Hattusa Mission of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University operating in collaboration with the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to experiment with new 3D survey technologies on the UNESCO site of Hattusa/Boghazkale (Turkey) for the identification of traces related urban development, epigraphic evidence and building forms characterising the capital of the Hittites. For each area, depending on the type of evidence (monumental, archaeological, epigraphic, etc.), different three-dimensional survey procedures were implemented and scanners based on different technologies were used (static and dynamic structured light; lasers of different ranges; ground and drone-based photo/video cameras for computer vision processing, etc.). The different models processed in the laboratory were subjected to interpolation procedures, in order to generate complex models capable of adequately representing all the different object realities present (from the topographical base, down to the individual signs of the hieroglyphic inscriptions) at very high definition.