Ceramic loom weight

Distance:
Country

Spain

Region

Castilla-La Mancha

Material

Ceramic

Age

Prehistoric

Provenance

Cerro de las Cabezas Oppidum

Catalog number

358_6

Digitization date

9/06/2022

Digitization method

Photogrammetry

Photos / scans number

289

Hardware

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

Lens

Canon 100 mm 2.8 L

Lighting

Foldio Lightbox

Technician

Víctor Manuel López-Menchero

Postprocesing

Bart McLeod and Jeff Du Vernay

Ceramic loom weight (pyramid frustum shaped). It was used to tighten the warp threads of a loom. From the archaeological site of Cerro de las Cabezas, Valdepeñas, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Iron Age (5th-3rd centuries BC). In the collection of the Valdepeñas Museum. Catalog number 358-6. 3D model made in Reality Capture using 289 images. Additional processing completed in Geomagic Wrap, Zbrush, and Blender.

This work is part of the collaboration agreement signed in 2020 between Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and Global Digital Heritage for the digitization of the Cultural Heritage of Castilla-La Mancha region. We want to publicly thank the collaboration of the Valdepeñas Museum.