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PHOTO TOWER [1 record]

Record 1 1986-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Photography
OBS

in underwater archaeology

CONT

Bass and Throckmorton were the first to use the grid system ... on a Byzantine shipwreck located ... at Yassi Ada, Turkey, in 1961. ... they spent the first month constructing a scaffolding of angle iron over the whole area, stepped to accommodate the slope of the bottom, with squares spaced 2 meters apart, each leveled horizontally. Two portable photographic towers of light metal ... could then be bolted to each grid. A camera mounted on the tower took photographs from the same elevation and angle, .... (MADIG, 1975, p. 156).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Photographie
CONT

A Yassi Ada, G. Bass procéda entre 1961 et 1964 à la fouille d'un navire byzantin du VIIe siècle (...). Le quadrillage fut réalisé grâce à une série de cadres rectangulaires métalliques de 9 m de long sur 2 m de large, (...). Une tour photographique de 4.5 m s'adaptait sur cette grille. Les objets étaient (...) photographiés sous tous les angles avec deux caméras synchronisées. (MASCI, 1973, p. 744).

Spanish

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