Keywords
Highlight-RTI
Yalburt Yaylası Sacred Pool Complex
Landscape monument
Archaeological Imaging
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Abstract
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
was used to record an inscription carved on the surfaces of 17 limestone blocks of the Yalburt Yaylası Sacred Pool Complex (Konya), which dates from the
XIIIth century B.C. After a brief introduction concerning the site and the RTI technique, and particularly its
Highlight-RTI variant, this paper reports on the imaging strategy tailored to the conditions of this specific
landscape monument, which contains blocks of various
dimensions organized along three axes. While various
applications of the RTI technique on open-air examples have been reported in the literature to date1
, our
experience on the Yalburt Yaylası Sacred Pool Complex presents a large-scale application of Highlight-RTI
on a complex monument. The paper concludes that
RTI is an efficient tool for documenting landscape
monuments when the needs of each site are carefully
analyzed. In this large-scale capacity, RTI works best as
a site-specific technique customized to the particularities of each locale.
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