Who

Maria Diletta Pubblico

Maria Diletta Pubblico

Maria Diletta Pubblico is the principal investigator 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

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

Willemina Zwanida "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.

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

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 throughout the overall action as well as setting-up the visual repository.

Eva Pietroni

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.

Deidre Brin

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 the webpage of the SEAMS project.

Daniele Ferdani

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

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

Moupi Mukhopadhyay is currently wrapping up her doctoral research about the wall paintings in Kerala, India, at the Conservation of Material Culture program at UCLA. She uses technical imaging and spectroscopy to better understand the materials present in these 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.