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No artifact image provided MC001
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Granite
Height: 113 mm | 4.45 in

Precision score: NA
No artifact image provided MV001
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Pottery
Height: 178 mm | 7.01 in

Precision score: 1.93
No artifact image provided MV002
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Breccia
Height: 148 mm | 5.83 in

Precision score: NA
No artifact image provided MV003
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Andesite Porphyry
Height: 64 mm | 2.52 in

Precision score: 22
No artifact image provided MV004
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Basalt
Height: 63 mm | 2.48 in

Precision score: 68
No artifact image provided MV005
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Limestone
Height: 64 mm | 2.52 in

Precision score: 111
No artifact image provided MV006
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Basalt
Height: 65 mm | 2.56 in

Precision score: 8.99
No artifact image provided MV007
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Granite
Height: 63 mm | 2.48 in

Precision score: 19
No artifact image provided MV008
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Diorite
Height: 39 mm | 1.54 in

Precision score: 191
No artifact image provided MV009
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Diorite
Height: 58 mm | 2.28 in

Precision score: 16
No artifact image provided MV010
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Calcite (Egyptian Alabaster
Height: 120 mm | 4.72 in

Precision score: 1.12
No artifact image provided MV011
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Porphyry
Height: 114 mm | 4.49 in

Precision score: NA
No artifact image provided MV012
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Basalt
Height: 195 mm | 7.68 in

Precision score: 5.29
No artifact image provided MV013
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Diorite
Height: 94 mm | 3.7 in

Precision score: 20
No artifact image provided MV014
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Basalt
Height: 61 mm | 2.4 in

Precision score: 219
No artifact image provided MV015
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Black & White Syenite, perhaps Hornblende Diorite
Height: 72 mm | 2.83 in

Precision score: 24
No artifact image provided MV016
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Basalt
Height: 144 mm | 5.67 in

Precision score: 2.08
No artifact image provided MV017
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Limestone
Height: 68 mm | 2.68 in

Precision score: 29
No artifact image provided MV018
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Diorite
Height: 41 mm | 1.61 in

Precision score: 12
No artifact image provided MV019
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Porphyry
Height: 137 mm | 5.39 in

Precision score: 14
No artifact image provided MV020
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Basalt
Height: 67 mm | 2.64 in

Precision score: 8.98
No artifact image provided MV021
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Material: Grey Basalt
Height: 96 mm | 3.78 in

Precision score: 9.67
No artifact image provided PV001
In private collection of Adam Young
Material: Red Granite
Height: 120 mm | 4.72 in

Precision score: 1905
No artifact image provided PV005
In private collection
Material: Andesite Porphyry
Height: 125 mm | 4.92 in

Precision score: Pending
No artifact image provided PV006
In private collection
Material: Dark grey granite
Height: 110 mm | 4.33 in

Precision score: 621
No artifact image provided RV001
In private collection
Material: Red Granite
Height: 251 mm | 9.88 in

Precision score: 84
No artifact image provided RV002
In private collection
Material: Diorite
Height: 151 mm | 5.94 in

Precision score: 47
No artifact image provided RV003
In private collection
Material: Marble breccia
Height: 83 mm | 3.27 in

Precision score: 1.52

Data Attributions

Petrie Museum Scans

In the effort to acquire scans of museums pieces, Károly Póka has carried out an enormous and very important piece of work. Both in getting access to a metrology grade hand-held scanning device, as well as to getting access to scan artifacts at The Petrie Museum in London. His efforts have yielded high quality scans of:

This important work has been supported by Artifact Foundation.

Scans From Private Collections

Artifact Foundation, headed by Adam Young, has obtained several high-quality scans of vessels in private collections. This includes 4 CT scans (PV001, PV002, PV003 and PV004), carried out by Zeiss.

Another important achievement of The Artifact Foundation has been to obtain scans of both an ancient artifact in a private collection, and a modern (CNC machined) replica of that exact same vessel. The comparison of these two vessels (RV001 and PV006) will provide valuable information in terms of learning more about the tools used to create these incredible artifacts.

Modern Replicas

A sincere thanks also to Olga Vdovina and Yulia Gukasova who have invested tremendous time and effort into making three vessel replicas in hard-stone, without the use of CNC machinery. Olga Vdovina and Yulia Gukasova had to reinvent methods of primitive stone processing, demonstrating what can be achieved with primitive tools. As this is the first time something like this have been tried in modern history, these vessels do not show the full potential of what can be achieved using primitive stone working methods.

Their stated goal was to make replicas of the ancient artifacts using: "just stone, bone, wood, sand and a lot of persistence". RV003 have been created only using these primitive tools, however in the final process of the creation of RV002, modern tools like a rotary table (supported by ball bearings) were used to obtain the final precision of the object. Still, their work stands as an important contribution to the combined ongoing efforts.

Downloads of their vessel scans can be found here.


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