Evaluating Gismondi's Representation of Portus, the Port of Imperial Rome

• Graeme P Earl ^[1] ; Simon J Keay ^[1] ; Gareth C Beale ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Southampton

     University of Southampton

     GB.ENG.M4.24UJ, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Virtual Archaeology Review, ISSN-e 1989-9947, Vol. 1, Nº. 1 (Abril 2010), 2010, págs. 21-25
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper introduces the Portus Project, an inter-disciplinary collaborative fieldwork project focussed on the ancient port of Rome. It demonstrates the use that is being made of a plaster model of the port produced by Italo Gismondi in 1937, initially as a means for focussing re-evaluations of the various illustrative and other data available relating to the port’s topography, and then as a source for background and comparative digital geometric data within the project’s work to remodel the entire site. The Portus Project employs three-dimensional computer graphics throughout the data gathering, analysis, modelling and representation phases and the paper considers the role that Gismondi’s model is playing in the development and evaluation of such a process.