Nineveh

Photographic and stereophotogrammetric campaign

Nineveh. Vectorial restitution of the slabs for the spatial reconstruction of room V of Sennacherib’s palace

The collection of photographic documentation and the stereophotogrammetric survey performed with the most up-to-date technologies proved useful from the first stages of the project, allowing the identification of both the areas that were most compromised by the war and of the specific sectors to perform restorations on. In fact, the photo shooting and the surveys performed in 2002, compared to earlier ones and to drawings made by the site’s discoverer in the 19th century, confirmed that the greatest damage to the plates (breakage, loss, detachment from the unbaked brick masonry) occurred between 1990 and 2002, thus allowing an actual stereoscopic/photogrammetric-based map to be made, on which the restoration project was based.