Maleha_Palace_Kitchen

Distance:
Country

United Arab Emirates

Region

Sharjah

Age

Antiquity

Provenance

Mhleiha Palace

Internal ID

Kitchen_UAE

Digitization date

13/02/2019

Digitization method

Laser Scanner

Photos / scans number

30

Hardware

FARO Focus3D S70

Lighting

sunlight

This pre-Islamic period (1st Century CE) kitchen was associated with a farmhouse, and is located near a large and contemporaneous palace complex not far from the Mleiha Archaeological Centre. The Kitchen contains two round pit ovens that are accessible by a short, five step stair case. Various millstones were found associated with the kitchen, suggesting that it was the location of the processing of cereal grains and bread making.

The model was made from pointcloud data captured with two FARO Focus s70 terrestrial laser scanners. The scan positions were aligned in FARO SCENE and the point cloud was meshed in Reality Capture software. Further processing, including Z-painting, was completed in Meshlab.