PERCEIVE aims at advancing the digital capability of scientists and cultural institutions through a service-based AI architecture and toolkit, and by developing a new design theory for on-site and remote VR/AR/MR experiences, based on the concepts of “Care”, “Accessibility”, and “Authenticity”, with and for the creative industries, expanding the access to Cultural Heritage and Art outside museums for wider integration with society.
Boubastis (also known, in Arabic, as Tell Basta or, in Egyptian, as Per-Bast) was an ancient city in Egypt. It was located in the Nile Delta and served as the capital of the Am-Khent nome (the Bubastite nome), which was the 18th nome of Lower Egypt. It has been identified with the Biblical Pi-Beseth.
Pelusium was a fortified ancient city located at the mouth of the eastern-most branch of the Nile river. Its ruins, now land-locked and located approximately 30km southeast of Port Said, are known as Tell Farama.
PAThs is a project -- which has been funded for six years (2016-2022) by an ERC Advanced Grant (project no. 687567) and is now running thanks to other forms of finantial support -- whose goal is to provide an in-depth diachronical understanding and effective representation of the geography of Coptic literary production and in particular of the corpus of literary writings, almost exclusively of religious contents, produced in Egypt between the 3rd and the 13th centuries in the Coptic language.
PAThs (complete title: “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their Original Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage”) takes an original and pluridisciplinary approach, combining philology, codicology, palaeography, archaeology, archaeometry, and digital humanities, in order to explore the process of production, copying, usage, dissemination, and storage of Coptic works in relation to the concrete geographical contexts of origin of both the texts themselves and their related writing supports.
PAThs is not a project that emerges ex nihilo, but it takes advantage of some successful initiatives whose results will constitute one of the bases of the research work, although they do not overlap with the goals of this new project. The Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (CMCL) is the most important of these projects.
Documentation and data repository for the Interactive Atlas of Coptic Literature.
Available documentation:
- Users’ handbook
- Database schema
- Data repository
Campanian Augustan Aqueduct at Parco dello Sport (Bagnoli, Naples, Italy), adit R9. Preliminary confined space model. Data acquisition on Aug 24, 2023 with Apple iPhone 14 Pro, IOS V16.2, 256 GB of RAM, and the Scaniverse V2.1.4 application, with scanning in Area mode and processing in Area mode. No post-processing on other devices. Credits: Graziano W. Ferrari (scanning), Raffaella Lamagna (operations support).
Campanian Augustan Aqueduct at Parco dello Sport (Bagnoli, Naples, Italy), channel junction between R7 and R8 adits. Preliminary confined space model. Data acquisition on Aug 24, 2023 with Apple iPhone 14 Pro, IOS V16.2, 256 GB of RAM, and the Scaniverse V2.1.4 application, with scanning in Area mode and processing in Area mode. No post-processing on other devices. Credits: Graziano W. Ferrari (scanning), Raffaella Lamagna (operations support).
