3D-Reconstruction of a Statue of Gudea from the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

 
PIIS207987840015581-8-1
DOI10.18254/S207987840015581-8
Publication type Article
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Lomonosov Moscow State University
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameISTORIYA
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Abstract

The article is dedicated to the reconstruction of the statue of Gudea, the ruler of Lagash, based on six original fragments of gray stone, which are kept at the Department of Ancient Orient of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Research fellows of the Pushkin Museum and the Research Restoration Laboratory "Archaeolab" carried out 3D scanning of all the original fragments, as well as 3D scanning of plaster casts of the Gudea’s statue and head from the Ivan Tsvetaev Educational Art Museum to create a "base" sculpture for embedding fragments into it and creating a complete reconstruction. As a result of the work, it has been established that the objects belong to three different statues (1 — I 2 b 1342, 1343, 1344, 1345; 2 — I 2 b 1346; 3 — I 2 b 1347). Four fragments (hands, two fragments of a cap, a large fragment of shoulder with text) represent the details of one statue (apparently standing) and can be embedded in a 3D model of the "base" sculpture. Detail of shoulder I 2 b 1346, apparently, relates to another statue of Gudea. Fragment I 2 b 1347 belongs to a sculpture of different type and, possibly, dates from a different period.

KeywordsGudea, Lagash, Sumerian sculpture, 3D-reconstruction, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
AcknowledgmentThe research presented in the article is sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation, project no 19-18-00369 “The Classical Orient: culture, world-view, tradition of research in Russia (based on the objects in the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and archive sources)”.
Received05.10.2020
Publication date17.05.2021
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