Restoration and public display of statues, the Great Eastern

Baths in Jerash, 2018:Disseminating and representing the 3D digital environment of statues' display.

The location of Public display

The high quality and historical importance of the sculptures uncovered in the eastern baths interdict their display under the open sky. Dr. Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis proposed to display the colossal Aphrodite and the almost complete statue of Zeus in the Jerash Visitor Center, and the torsos of the enthroned muses in the archaeological site museum.

DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION OF THE STATUES AND DISSEMINATING OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:

The project ambition is to conserve and represent the remarkable, founded sculpture to a broader public. After the restoring process done by the restorer Franco and his team, displaying the - more than 2 m in height - the statue of the colossal Aphrodite in the Jerash Visitor center was the most significant challenge. The over-life-sized torso in two pieces of the statue of Aphrodite type Troas dated by its inscription to AD 153/154 (T.Weber). The two parts of the torso (the lower part with pedestal and upper thorax) needed to be fixed professionally for a public display. In the end, the marble surface cleaned, and the full statue mounted upon a modern pedestal of a height of about 80 cm. In the same manner, the after consolidation work and cleaning of the marble statue of Zeus type -which is due to the rare survival of head, the statue of Gerasa's tutelary God is the best-preserved statue ever found at the site – is mounted upon a modern pedestal as well in the same gallery.

Methodology And

The overall process of creating 3D digital reconstruction models visitor center gallery and the triangulation methods. The that a knowledgeable experience

AND DATA ACQUISITION:

creating the virtual replicas of the display of the statues is divided into three main parts; the first is documenting and creating the models of the statues Aphrodite, Zeus, and the torsos of the enthroned muses. The second is creating the 3D model of the the archaeological site museum, based on the as-built blueprint and some measurement we took on-site using traditional The third was combining all the models in one digital environment to manage, visualize, and control the 3D model. In the hope of experience specialist in the data's acquisition and cu-ration was required, but an architectural and artistic point view was needed.

Public Representation And Dissemination Of The Digital Models

After successfully displaying the remarkable statues at the visitor center to the public, presenting this implementation properly to both the researcher community and the public (spatially to Jerash and Jordan's local community) was the next ultimate goal. Several approaches were discussed, depending on the story we wanted to tell and the shape of the semantic representation level we wanted to produce. Moreover, we anticipated the level of engagement from the recipients to react with the digital model and their level of education and background to receive and understand the presented information.

Hence, rendered views of the statues were generated from the Metashape as Ortho-mosaic, a generated high-resolution imagery based on the source photos and reconstructed model, and different rendered views of their display at the galleries from Auto-desk 3Ds Max. Additionally, fly-through animation of the current display in mp4 format using 3Ds mas and motion graphic programs and software was created to be published on-line on several social media platforms and presented on heritage and archaeological events and conferences. Furthermore, we published these on spectacular models on the on-line platform, Sketchfab, where it is possible to publish, share, discover, buy, and sell 3D, V.R., and A.R. content. It provides a viewer based on the WebGL and WebXR technologies that allow users to display 3D models on the web, to be viewed on any mobile browser, desktop browser, or Virtual Reality headset (Sketchfab Careers & Jobs, 2020) .

3D MODEL OF TORSO DER POLYHYMNIA MARMOR, HÖHE BEFORE RESTORATION

3D MODEL OF TORSO DER POLYHYMNIA MARMOR, HÖHE AFTER RESTORATION