Maria Diletta Pubblico
Maria Diletta Pubblico is the principal investigator (PI) of the SEAMS project. She holds a PhD and a PostDoc in Egyptology both at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy. She also worked on photographic archives at the Egypt Exploration Society in London. She participated in many fieldworks both in Italy (Pompeii, Cumae, Rome) and Egypt (Saqqara, Abu Ghurab, Asyut). She is especially interested in religion, material culture and animals in Ancient Egypt.
Christian Greco
Christian Greco is a supervisor of the SEAMS project. He directs Museo Egizio in Turin (ME) since 2014 and teaches courses in the Material Culture of Ancient Egypt and Museology at numerous Italian and international universities. He is an expert of Egyptian funerary and religious beliefs and is currently especially involved in rekindling the dialogue between the human and digital sciences. His expertise in the SEAMS topic and related fields are essential to the successful accomplishment of the project.
Willeke Wendrich
Willeke Wendrich is a supervisor of the SEAMS project. She is Full Professor of History of Material Culture at the Politecnico in Turin (PoliTO) and former Director of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (CIoA). She specialises in craft production (especially weaving), religion, and material culture of Ancient Egypt. Through her scientific and technical knowledge, she is supporting the progress of the SEAMS project, especially concerning the analysis of techniques and styles of weaving patterns.
Eva Pietroni
Eva Pietroni is the overseer of the SEAMS project for the Secondment at the Digital Heritage Innovation Lab (DHiLab) at ISPC-CNR in Rome. She is senior researcher at the CNR and coordinates national and international projects. Her research concerns virtual museums and museum technologies, digitisation, new forms of narration and interaction based on the hybridisation of media. Her expertise and guidance is pivotal for the setting up of a temporary exhibition on votive animal mummies at the ME.
Elsa Yvanez
Elsa Yvanez is the overseer of the SEAMS project for the Secondment at the Centre for Textile Research (CTR) at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). She is director of the CTR and Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute at UCPH. She is specialised in textile production of ancient Egypt and Nubia, the use of textile for clothing and burial, and the economic significance of spinning and weaving. Her expertise is essential to leading the analysis of textiles used to wrap animal mummy, shedding light on their manufacture and developing wrapping reconstructions.
Giacomo Landeschi
Giacomo Landeschi is the overseer of the SEAMS project for the Secondment at the Lund University (ULUND). He is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Research Engineer at ULUND. He especially deals with 3D modelling, data management, and database implementation. His supervision is crucial towards implementing the relational database and carrying out the multi-scalar and cross analysis of the data gathered during the research path.
Deidre Brin
Deidre Brin is the director of the Digital Archaeology Lab (DAL) at CIoA. She is experienced in data management best practices, preservation of research data, database implementation, and website building. Thanks to her expertise, the PI became confident in using 3D Geographical Information System (3D GIS) which is used to facilitate data storage, management, and retrieval and consider the spatial dimensions of the votive animal mummies. She also built SEAMS webpage.
Daniele Ferdani
Daniele Ferdani is a Senior Researcher at the DHiLab (ISPC-CNR) in Rome. His research is focused on the development of integrated technologies for tridimensional reconstruction of cultural heritage and their dissemination through virtual museums and virtual reality systems. He provided the PI with essential training to enhance her previously acquired competences in photogrammetry, provide her with knowledge of virtual restoration, and broaden her knowledge and skills in Digital Humanities.
Federico Di Iorio
Federico Di Iorio is a Ph.D. student in Metrology at PoliTO. As part of his doctoral studies, he is developing workflows for the integration of photogrammetry and multispectral photography in cultural heritage. He is engaged in a variety of projects to produce 2D and 3D multispectral documentation for museums, libraries, and universities. He trained the PI in acquiring, post-processing and read multispectral images to gathered reliable information on colorants present on the mummy bandages.
Moupi Mukhopadhyay
Moupi Mukhopadhyay is a Ph.D. student at the Conservation of Material Culture program at UCLA. She uses technical imaging and spectroscopy to better understand the materials present in wall paintings to help conserve them for the future. She delivered to the PI hands-on training in Fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS), which help her to collect and interpret data to chemical properties of the dye compounds.
Sofia Ceccarelli
Sofia Ceccarelli is research associate at the CNR Heritage Science Institute (ISPC) of Naples in the ERC Advanced Grant 885222-GreekSchools on the study of Herculaneum papyri by means of non-invasive imaging techniques. Her expertise fields comprehend thermographic and multi-band imaging, 3D modelling and colour representation, web programming and design. She is interpreting the FORS data collected by the PI, to understand the nature of coloring matters used to dye the strips of votive animal mummies.
Nicolò Dell'Unto
Nicolò Dell'Unto is a Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at ULUND. His research focuses on archaeological practice, specifically on how spatial technology and 3D visualisation affect our ability to perceive the past. He is currently the director of Lund University's DARKLab and Dynamic Collections Plus project. Through this platform, he supports the SEAMS project in the creation of an open-access digital archive that will allow any user to dynamically explore the 3D models and metadata generated throughout the overall action.
Stefan Lindgren
Stefan Lindgren work as a research engineer in ULUND Humanities lab, where his main task deals with 3D-data in different forms, including the record motion in 3D through a motion capture system. In this context, he contributes to the SEAMS project by documenting experimental archaeology reconstructions of wrapping sequences, with the aim to assesses the complexities, times, efforts, and amount of raw materials required in the wrapping process.
Danilo Marco Campanaro
Danilo Marco Campanaro is a researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University and a member of DARKLab and Dynamic Collections project. His primary research concerns the study of ancient space and perception through the integration of digital methods. He collaborates with the SEAMS project in defining measurable criteria for a comprehensive morphometric comparison of bandage weaves, which enables the identification of regional and chronological variations in wrapping styles.