Til Barsib
Syria

Research and 3D Modeling

The Palace at Til Barsib has an elaborate sub-floor drainage system and one of the most extensive collections of ancient wall paintings that has survived from antiquity. The building plan consists of a series of large open courtyards separating distinct self-contained suites of rooms.

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Palace Plan

Palace Plan
plXLVI Room 25 wall-band

plXLVI Room 25 wall-band

plXLVI Room 26 wall-band

plXLVI Room 26 wall-band

LEARNINGSITES is re-creating the Palace as an interactive 3D computer model as the basis for an elementary school educational package. All of the primary suites of rooms have been digitally reconstructed, with digital surrogates of the wall decorations re-placed on the walls of the model using copies of the original Lucien Cavro drawings, now in the Museé du Louvre (used with their permission).

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Rendering looking west across the so-called king's reception room, extracted from the computer model of the Palace at Til Barsib, Syria; © 2006 Learning Sites, Inc.; used under license agreement.

Rendering looking west across the so-called king's reception room, extracted from the computer model of the Palace at Til Barsib, Syria; © 2006 Learning Sites, Inc.; used under license agreement.

Rendering looking east across the so-called king's reception room, extracted from the computer model of the Palace at Til Barsib, Syria; © 2006 Learning Sites, Inc.; used under license agreement.

Rendering looking east across the so-called king's reception room, extracted from the computer model of the Palace at Til Barsib, Syria; © 2006 Learning Sites, Inc.; used under license agreement.

Rendering of the so-called king's reception room; © 2002 Learning Sites, Inc.; used under license agreement.

Rendering of the so-called king's reception room; © 2002 Learning Sites, Inc.; used under license agreement.

In addition, the package includes a 3D computer model of the topography of the site, a model of the Lion Gate (through the enciente wall at the northeast edge of the site) and nearby stela of Esarhaddon, and an Assyrian temple, situated to the west of the palace mound, and based on evidence from Tel Halaf and Arslan Tash.

The result will be available both in VRML and QTVR formats.

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Stela of Esarhaddon

Stela of Esarhaddon
Stela of Esarhaddon

Render of the Stela of Esarhaddon

Three-dimensional model of the grey basalt bull (one of two) that guarded the entryway into the palace at this ancient Assyrian provincial site. The model is based on evidence from the French excavations of the site and has become part of the Til Barsib, Syria, educational package.<br /> © Learning Sites Inc., used under license

Three-dimensional model of the grey basalt bull (one of two) that guarded the entryway into the palace at this ancient Assyrian provincial site. The model is based on evidence from the French excavations of the site and has become part of the Til Barsib, Syria, educational package.
© Learning Sites Inc., used under license

Reference
Page Created: January 10, 2012
Page Updated: June 2, 2012
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Page Author: The Institute for the Visualization of History