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Digital Humanities, Egyptology & Heritage Preservation A Comparative Perspective; November 26-28,... more Digital Humanities, Egyptology & Heritage Preservation
A Comparative Perspective; November 26-28, 2018, Learning Center, Phobe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Papers by Rita Lucarelli

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3D visualizations of heritage objects such as ancient Egyptian coffins can be better used for gen... more 3D visualizations of heritage objects such as ancient Egyptian coffins can be better used for general and specialistic studies if they also provide annotations. This paper presents the system of annotations developed for the "Book of the Dead in 3D Project," which applies photogrammetry and digital annotations to coffins and sarcophagi produced in the 1st millennium bce. The annotated models of the project include the transcription, translation and transliteration of the magical texts inscribed on the coffins, which can be interactively read by the user while navigating the 3D model.

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 2018

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 2013

Additional Info: Lucarelli, Rita, 2010, Demons (benevolent and malevolent). In Jacco Dieleman, Wi... more Additional Info: Lucarelli, Rita, 2010, Demons (benevolent and malevolent). In Jacco Dieleman, Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. ... Keywords: magic, misfortune, evil, protection, apotropaeic, spirit, ghost, genie

By using the technique of photogrammetry for the 3D visualization of ancient Egyptian coffins dec... more By using the technique of photogrammetry for the 3D visualization of ancient Egyptian coffins decorated with magical texts and iconography, this project aims at building up a new digital platform for an in-depth study of the ancient Egyptian funerary culture and its media. It has started in August 2015 through the support of a Mellon Fellowship for the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley and up until now it has focused on ancient Egyptian coffins kept at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of UC Berkeley. The main outcome will be a digital platform that allows to display a coffin in 3D and where users will be able to pan, rotate, and zoom in on the coffin, clicking on areas of text to highlight them and view an annotated translation together with other metadata (transcription of the hieroglyphic text, bibliography, textual variants, museological data, provenance, etc.

It is not an easy job to manufacture ancient written objects. You have to imitate the archaic sty... more It is not an easy job to manufacture ancient written objects. You have to imitate the archaic style, the writing must be copied faithfully to the original and the material has to look antique. Faking Book of the Dead manuscripts1 implicates some advantages: The amount of available specimens is huge and only a few specialists know them all: currently we know about 3000 Book of the Dead manuscripts, from small fragments, only a few centimeterslong, up to complete manuscripts of more than 20 meters-long. Also, every day there is a chance that new manuscripts come out from auctions or excavations. Since Book of the Dead manuscripts were in use for a period of about 2000 years, their typologies are various and numerous; manuscripts of very high quality are widely attested as well as very roughly decorated scrolls. Therefore, a heavyhanded line is not compulsorily an evidence for a forgery. In order to forge a manuscript which looks authentic, it is not necessary to have a very precise co...