Statue Context

The sculpture studied in this paper was found in the corner of the so called Basilica Noniana, named after a Herculaneum patron. This building lies on the edge of the public part of the Roman town which still lies buried beneath modern Ercolano. In this area the deposits are more than 10m thick and may well contain the surviving portion of the statue. An excellent interactive tour of this area, and the remainder of the site, is available produced by the University of Auckland.

In order to study the digital version of the statue in terms of its appearance in context we will construct hypothetitical architectural environments, based on all available evidence. Without this reconstructed context the appearance of the statue will be limited to the same forms of appreciation possible within a gallery setting. We are interested, for example, in the appearance of the statue under alternative simulated forms of illumination - an area in which our project partner Alan Chalmers (Warwick Digital Lab) is an expert.