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2,000-Year-Old Love Note and Gladiator Fight Scene Uncovered on Pompeii Wall
Reflectance Transformation Imaging revealed 79 new inscriptions including love notes and gladiator sketches on a Pompeii corridor wall, part of nearly 300 total found by researchers.
- New imaging technology revealed nearly 80 previously unseen inscriptions on the plastered wall of the long corridor connecting Pompeii's theatres to Via Stabiana, first uncovered more than 230 years ago.
- The "corridor whispers" project led by researchers Louis Autin, Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer, and Marie-Adeline Le Guennec with Pompeii authorities aimed to re-examine faint graffiti on a surface thought exhaustively recorded.
- Using Reflectance Transformation Imaging, researchers revealed the faint sketch of two gladiators, the partial love inscription beginning 'Erato loves...', and Methe's plea to Venus for Cresto.
- The team is developing a 3D platform combining photogrammetry, RTI data, and epigraphic metadata, and Gabriel Zuchtriegel said `This technology is the key that opens new rooms of the ancient world`.
- Buried in AD 79 by Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii preserved vast graffiti, and rediscovered in the 18th century, it includes earlier inscriptions like a hurried farewell to 'Sava'.
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Love letters and gladiator battles: new technology revealed hidden inscriptions in Po
New imaging technology has revealed nearly 80 previously unknown inscriptions on the walls of an ancient corridor in Pompeii, showing that despite centuries of study, the city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius continues to yield discoveries shedding light on daily life thousands of years ago
·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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The "Journal Bruits" project proposes a global reinterpretation of the graffiti of the corridor of the theatre of Pompeii (Italy) thanks to the new technologies.
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