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So-called Megakles Sphinx

So-called Megakles Sphinx (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), colour reconstruction, (3D print in PMMA, natural pigment according to the Price Method in tempera technique, copper, tin, gilding). In cooperation with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Executed by: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Vinzenz Brinkmann.

(Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, Frankfurt am Main ST.P966)

Applied methods:
UVF=Ultraviolet Fluorescence (by Met & Liebieghaus team)
VIL=Infrared Fluorescence (by Met & Liebieghaus team)
VM=Visual Light Stereo Microscopy (by Met team)
DM=Digital Microscopy (by Met & Liebieghaus team)
RL=Photography in Raking Light (Nikon 910 flash & others)
DSTRETCH=False colors (by Liebieghaus team)
NLDIGCOLOR=Digital Photography in visible light, full color (by Met & Liebieghaus team)
DIGMPH=Digital Macro Photography (by Met & Liebieghaus team)
3DSCAN=Photgrammetry (by Met & Liebieghaus team)
FORS=UV-VIS Absorption Spectroscopy (by Liebieghaus team/Heinrich Piening)
MS=Microsampling (by Met team)
CS=Cross Section (by Met team)
Mapping XRF=Mapping X-ray Fluorescence Analysis (by Met team)
SEM=Scanning Electrone Microscopy (by Met team)
EXM=Energy Dispersive X-ray Microanalysis (by Met team)
μ-R=Micro Raman (by Met team)
μ-XRF=Micro X-ray Fluorescence Analysis (by Met team)
μ-XRD=Micro X-Ray Diffraction (by Met team)

see:

Reconstructing the Archaic Greek Sphinx. See how the sphinx of a Greek funerary monument was reconstructed in its original form and color.

Ancient Greek Sculpture in Color. A collaboration reveals new research on an archaic Greek sphinx finial at The Met.

(c) Vinzenz Brinkmann 2024, Polychromy Research Project