Apollo1

Distance:
Country

Spain

Region

Catalonia

Material

Marble

Age

Antiquity

Provenance

Museu Nacional Arqueologic de Tarragona

Catalog number

MNAT470

Internal ID

MNAT470

Digitization date

27/11/2019

Digitization method

Photogrammetry

Photos / scans number

736

Hardware

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

Lens

Sigma 35 mm 1.4

Lighting

Spotlight

Sculpture of an Apollo head from the site of Tarraco (Tarragona, Spain), dated in the 25-50 AD. Large marble head of Apollo, the god of sun and light, protector of music, poetry and the arts in general. It is probably a copy made in a local workshop based on 4th-century-BC Greek models. From the area of the Tarraco Colonia Forum.

736 photos completely processed in Reality Capture. The project was done with the support of the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona and the Agència Catalana del Patrimoni Cultural. Catalog No. MNAT 470.

Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona (2019): Tarraco: Exposición de síntesis. Generalitat de Catalunya Publicacions.