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The Virtual and Physical Reconstruction of the Octagon and Hadrian’s Temple in Ephesus

2012; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-28021-4_23

2191-3048

Ursula Quatember, Barbara Thuswaldner, Robert Kalasek, Bernd Breuckmann, Christiane Bathow,

Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

The so-called Octagon and the Hadrian’s Temple are two prominent buildings in the city center of Roman Ephesus. The Octagon, a monumental tomb monument from the first century B.C., is possibly the grave of the Ptolemaic princess Arsinoe IV, sister of the famous Cleopatra VII. Research on this building was started in 2005. The Hadrian’s Temple was re-erected shortly after its excavation in the 1959s and is therefore one of the prominent landmarks of the site. A new project on its investigation was started in 2009. Both structures have been documented by means of 3D surface scanning. This article presents the first results of both projects. It focuses on the goals, the challenges and the potential that this method offers to archaeologists and architectural historians.