Artifact Catalogue

Download: Catalogue overview - Sorted by precision score

MC001

NA

MC001 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Granite Height: 113 mm | 4.45 in Precision score: NA

MV001

1.93

MV001 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Pottery Height: 178 mm | 7.01 in Precision score: 1.93

MV002

NA

MV002 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Breccia Height: 148 mm | 5.83 in Precision score: NA

MV003

22

MV003 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Andesite Porphyry Height: 64 mm | 2.52 in Precision score: 22

MV004

68

MV004 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Basalt Height: 63 mm | 2.48 in Precision score: 68

MV005

111

MV005 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Limestone Height: 64 mm | 2.52 in Precision score: 111

MV006

8.99

MV006 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Basalt Height: 65 mm | 2.56 in Precision score: 8.99

MV007

19

MV007 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Granite Height: 63 mm | 2.48 in Precision score: 19

MV008

191

MV008 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Diorite Height: 39 mm | 1.54 in Precision score: 191

MV009

16

MV009 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Diorite Height: 58 mm | 2.28 in Precision score: 16

MV010

1.12

MV010 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Calcite (Egyptian Alabaster Height: 120 mm | 4.72 in Precision score: 1.12

MV011

NA

MV011 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Porphyry Height: 114 mm | 4.49 in Precision score: NA

MV012

5.29

MV012 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Basalt Height: 195 mm | 7.68 in Precision score: 5.29

MV013

20

MV013 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Diorite Height: 94 mm | 3.7 in Precision score: 20

MV014

219

MV014 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Basalt Height: 61 mm | 2.4 in Precision score: 219

MV015

24

MV015 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Black & White Syenite, perhaps Hornblende Diorite Height: 72 mm | 2.83 in Precision score: 24

MV016

2.08

MV016 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Basalt Height: 144 mm | 5.67 in Precision score: 2.08

MV017

29

MV017 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Limestone Height: 68 mm | 2.68 in Precision score: 29

MV018

12

MV018 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Diorite Height: 41 mm | 1.61 in Precision score: 12

MV019

14

MV019 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Porphyry Height: 137 mm | 5.39 in Precision score: 14

MV020

8.98

MV020 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Basalt Height: 67 mm | 2.64 in Precision score: 8.98

MV021

9.67

MV021 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Material: Grey Basalt Height: 96 mm | 3.78 in Precision score: 9.67

PV001

1905

PV001 In private collection of Adam Young Material: Red Granite Height: 120 mm | 4.72 in Precision score: 1905

PV005

Pending

PV005 In private collection Material: Andesite Porphyry Height: 125 mm | 4.92 in Precision score: Pending

PV006

621

PV006 In private collection Material: Dark grey granite Height: 110 mm | 4.33 in Precision score: 621

RV001

84

RV001 In private collection Material: Red Granite Height: 251 mm | 9.88 in Precision score: 84

RV002

47

RV002 In private collection Material: Diorite Height: 151 mm | 5.94 in Precision score: 47

RV003

1.52

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:

• 19 hard-stone vessels
• 4 drill cores (including the famous drill core no. 7)
• 1 pottery vessel and 1 calcite vessel (as a comparison base for the hard-stone vessels)

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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