Mashkan-shapir
Iraq

Images

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Detail of the surface at Mashkan-shapir showing both artifact scatters and traces of subsurface architecture; photo © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone; used with permission.

Detail of the surface at Mashkan-shapir showing both artifact scatters and traces of subsurface architecture; photo © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone; used with permission.

View across the site (with a person for scale) taken during the surface survey undertaken in the late 1980s, showing the general topography and artiact scatters found in the region; photo © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone; used with permission.

View across the site (with a person for scale) taken during the surface survey undertaken in the late 1980s, showing the general topography and artiact scatters found in the region; photo © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone; used with permission.

Closeup detail of the surface at Mashkan-shapir showing the density of the artifact scatter; photo © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone; used with permission.

Closeup detail of the surface at Mashkan-shapir showing the density of the artifact scatter; photo © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone; used with permission.

Renders

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Aerial rendering from the virtual reality model of the city showing the major districts (religious, administrative, domestic, industrial, and garden) each bordered by canals; preliminary status model by VIZIN.

Aerial rendering from the virtual reality model of the city showing the major districts (religious, administrative, domestic, industrial, and garden) each bordered by canals; preliminary status model by VIZIN.

Interactive

Typical aerial view of a 1-hectare square section of the site (with the corresponding site drawing underneath showing features, artifact scatters, and architecture); photo and drawing © 2004 Elizabeth C. Stone & Paul Zimansky; extracted from their book The Anatomy of a Mesopotamian City; used with permission.

VRML (3D viewable)

3d Image from the VIZIN model

Screen grab from our virtual reality massing model of the city showing some of the major features (canals in blue; embankments in thick terracotta, misc. walls in brown, roads and alleys in white or light blue, and artifact scatters and low mounds in light brown).

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Reference
Page Created: October 5, 2004
Page Updated: January 2, 2012
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Page Author: The Institute for the Visualization of History