The "Stone of Rosette" is one of the most famous artifacts of antiquity. It is the visitor highlight at the British Museum in London. Based on this trilingual object, J. -F. Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs in 1822.

Inventory: The British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA24

Metadata from the Trismegistos Database: https://www.trismegistos.org/text/8809

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One of the outcomes is a new depth map of the Rosetta Stone. It is published here:

University of Florida Smathers Libraries Digital Collections (local permalink):
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/IR00011130/00001

Humanities Commons (DOI permalink):
http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/t1e2-0w02

Qucosa (URN permalink):
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-390309

Please cite this as: M. Amin, A. Barmpoutis, M. Berti, E. Bozia, J. Hensel, F. Naether, 2018. "Depth map of the Rosetta Stone", rosetta-stone.dh.uni-leipzig.de under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence

Details: Algorithm: Barmpoutis et al. MVA 21 (6), 2010, pp. 989-998
Iterations: 50
Lighting Directions: 4
Resolution: 81.41 µm (12 DPI equivalent)
Digitization Date: June 28, 2018
Composed by merging 8 depth map segments.