| HD-50067-07 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College | Cuneiform Forensics - 3D Digital Analysis of Cuneiform Tablet Production | 4/1/2007 - 9/30/2008 | $29,850.00 | H. Arthur | | Bankoff | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College | Brooklyn | NY | 11210-2850 | USA | 2007 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 29850 | 0 | 29850 | 0 | Digital laser scanning and three-dimensional quantification, as well as the creation of digitally-generated models, of ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets.
The Brooklyn College Archaeological Research Center and the Brooklyn College Digital Morphology Laboratory are applying for funding from the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Program to investigate the feasibility of using laser scanning and 3D quantification and analysis of the cuneiform signs on a series of ancient Near Eastern tablets as a pilot study (1) to determine whether specific ?hands? can be identified ; (2) to investigate whether the same technology and research design can be used to match unconnected tablet fragments and to determine whether or not they are parts of the same text; (3) to reconstruct and compare the seals on the tablets and, (4) to reproduce exact larger-scale replicas of tablets and seals in epoxy resin for study and exhibit. |