Cyrene presents one of the largest and most spectacular necropolis of the Mediterranean basin, but at the same time it is the less known by the scholars. Recent studies of the scholar J. Thorn have presented a preliminary view of the architectonical monumentality, especially for the rocky chamber tombs, showing the need of new survey projects in the area. The team of Chieti University started in 1999 a project of surveying and mapping of the southern and eastern necropolis, giving birth to a GIS using differential GPS and Robotic total station for positioning and recording of the tombs and multispectral HD satellite images, previously hortho-rectifi ed and geo-referred, combined with RADAR images for highly detailed topographic base, DEM and DTM. From 2004, the survey and the GIS have been extended also to the western and northern necropolis, counting at the moment about 1500 mapped and recorded tombs. From the large amount of results is now possible to create models of the evolution of the necropolis, looking to its landscape assessment, to its growth in combination with the urban context, to the development of the architectonical typologies of the tombs, in order to contextualize more properly, chronologically and topographically, the progresses of this monumental city of the dead. This contribution is dedicated to the Late Jim Thorn, who devoted his life in mapping and saving the tombs of Cyrene, and introduced and involved our team in this project
GIS OF THE NECROPOLEIS OF ANCIENT CYRENE (LIBYA)
MENOZZI, Oliva
2010-01-01
Abstract
Cyrene presents one of the largest and most spectacular necropolis of the Mediterranean basin, but at the same time it is the less known by the scholars. Recent studies of the scholar J. Thorn have presented a preliminary view of the architectonical monumentality, especially for the rocky chamber tombs, showing the need of new survey projects in the area. The team of Chieti University started in 1999 a project of surveying and mapping of the southern and eastern necropolis, giving birth to a GIS using differential GPS and Robotic total station for positioning and recording of the tombs and multispectral HD satellite images, previously hortho-rectifi ed and geo-referred, combined with RADAR images for highly detailed topographic base, DEM and DTM. From 2004, the survey and the GIS have been extended also to the western and northern necropolis, counting at the moment about 1500 mapped and recorded tombs. From the large amount of results is now possible to create models of the evolution of the necropolis, looking to its landscape assessment, to its growth in combination with the urban context, to the development of the architectonical typologies of the tombs, in order to contextualize more properly, chronologically and topographically, the progresses of this monumental city of the dead. This contribution is dedicated to the Late Jim Thorn, who devoted his life in mapping and saving the tombs of Cyrene, and introduced and involved our team in this projectI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
