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3D view of the Idalion royal inscription squeeze

Interactive 3D view of a paper squeeze of the royal inscription of Idalion (446 BCE), made in 1887, from the Cabinet-CIS collection.

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Grayscale shaded 3D rendering of a round, textured impression with a horizontal ridge across its middle.

This is the record AIBL-CIS Dos. 12.01.01, the “Inscription royale d’Idalion” (446 BCE = RÉS 453), from a squeeze made in 1887. Manipulating the photograph in the Digital Epigraphy interface produces the best known photograph of the inscription.

It is an example from the effort to digitally preserve the Cabinet-CIS collection, described in Imprints of the Past.

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