Sphinx of Naxos - Delphi Museum, Greece
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D61605 | |
| Project Name | Sphinx of Naxos - Delphi Museum |
| Country | Greece |
| Status | Upcoming |
| Citation |
| Tom Levy, Ioannis Liritzis, George Pavlidis, Matt Howland, Brady Liss, Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) 2026: Sphinx of Naxos - Delphi Museum - Photogrammetry - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D61605 |
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| Spatial Data | Coming Soon |
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| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | 10.8 GB | Samsung NX500 | Mirrorless |
| Background |
| Site Description | Delphi was the most prestigious and authoritative oracle in the ancient world. Its reputation centred on the political decisions taken after consultation of the Oracle, especially during the period of colonisation of the Archaic period. The Archaeological Museum of Delphi sits directly beside the sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, making it one of Greece's most contextually rich regional museums. Founded in the late nineteenth century and substantially renovated in the 1990s, it houses finds excavated almost entirely from the sanctuary itself and the surrounding sacred precinct.
The Sphinx of Naxos is a 2.22-meter-tall (7.3 ft) marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and wings composed of the impressive feathers of a prey bird turned upward, and the body of a lioness. The Sphinx stood on a 10 meter column that culminated in one of the first Ionic capitals, and was erected next to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, the religious center of Ancient Greece, in 560 BCE.
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| Project Description | Part of the Delphi4Delphi project:
Liritzis, Ioannis, George Pavlidis, Spyros Vosynakis, Anestis Koutsoudis, Pantelis Volonakis, Nikos Petrochilos, Matthew D. Howland, Brady Liss, and Thomas E. Levy. “Delphi4Delphi: First Results of the Digital Archaeologyinitiative for Ancient Delphi, Greece.” Antiquity 90, no. 354 (2016): e4. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.187.
The main goal of the Delphi4Delphi project is to capture detailed 3D images of the major archaeological monuments at Delphi and artefacts in the Delphi Archaeological Museum in order to contribute to the 3D reconstruction of the sanctuary in support of research, conservation and tourism.
Two types of digital-photography-based recording systems were used in the 2015 season. The first method was SfM. This is a technique of spectral documentation (usually typical optical imaging), and refers to the process of making 3D structures from 2D image sequences. This constitutes recovering a scene's depth (the dimension that is not captured in a single typical 2D photo), and in recording it in a 3D data format. | |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | Archaeological Site of Delphi |
| Collection Date | 2015-08-06 to 2015-08-06 |
| Publication Date | 2026-03-11 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | C - Non-Metric Model |
| Curator Notes | Scale is set manually using descriptions on wikipedia - Scott McAvoy OH3D |
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