Morphometry - A new Method in Roman Brick Stamp Comparison

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Morphometry - A new Method in Roman Brick Stamp Comparison

Original language description

Research of building terracotta has great importance in understanding of Roman building activity. Not only on Roman camps, but also on civil buildings, stamped bricks often give us the only information about dating of various building phases. Current dating is based mostly on epigraphic analyses which are not accurate in most cases. Thanks to the uniqueness of every die used for stamping, stratigraphically dated finds can enable identification of material also from different locations. Since use of epigraphical analyses is not suitable in this case, new system was developed, based on computer application. The system is derived from morphometric analyses, which use is not common in archaeology. Data are collected and measured from vertical photos of stamps. The system is based on extracting of coordinates from the photos and subsequent mathematical comparison of the data. The analysis examines the shape of edge of stamp impression and then it compares its exact dimensions. Comparative criteria were developed precisely for the Roman stamped brick material. Analyses on finds from Mušov-Burgstall and Vindobona have even proven that current typological sorting can be incorrect. In fact, stamps separated into several types proved to come from one die. High accuracy of this method also enabled identification of the fragmentary stamps. The comparison system is more complicated in this case, because the proportions and position of every preserved letter is taken into consideration. The advantage of this system is, that three preserved letters are sufficient to reconstruct the rest of the stamp.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Limes XXIII

ISBN

978-3-96176-050-3

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

570-575

Publisher name

Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag &amp; Media GmbH

Place of publication

Mainz

Event location

Ingolstadt

Event date

Sep 12, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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