project funded by EU – LinkSceem-2 – The Cyprus Institute

Team: Marilyn Lundberg (USC), Ken Zuckerman (USC), Ropertos Georgiou (CyI), Nikolas Bakirtzis (CyI).

The first pilot projects for the imaging center were organized with two major cultural institutions in Nicosia: The BOCCF and the Leventis Municipal Museum. Team members tested all available imaging systems on a wide range of materials and objects from the collections of our collaborators that included coins, medieval ceramics, jewelry, minor arts, icons, paintings, wood carving etc. These efforts provided great opportunities for the testing and optimization of imaging systems. At the same time, they revealed the potential of RTI technology to museum curators and archaeologists thus preparing the ground for more thematically focused research initiatives.

A  pilot  study  at  the  Bank  of  Cyprus  Cultural  Foundation(February  2012)  and  a  second  at  the   collections  of  the  Leventis  Museum(March  2012)    have  been  completed  highlighting  the  benefits   this  new  tool  in  digital  imaging  will  bring  to  the  conservation  and  further  study  of  the  rich  and   diverse  history  of  Cyprus.    Collaborative  thematic  research  projects  are  already  planned  focusing   on  shedding  new  light  on  the  study  of  archaeological  material  and  works  of  art.

Imaging Pilot Projects (RTI and Giga Imaging/Large Format photography) by ICACH is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.