Data Sets and Types

Most of the data presented via the Musawwarat Graffiti Archive were generated during the Musawwarat Graffiti Project's field seasons since 2008. Image files as well as related descriptive data are the prime data types, although the Archive is planned to also present additional data types in the future, such as 3D-models and RTI-files:

1) Descriptive data sets generated since 2008 on several thousand Musawwarat graffiti and the block surfaces on which they were placed (status: in the process of being digitised)

2) High resolution digital colour images of the graffiti and their sandstone support (blocks, sections of walls, entire walls) taken since 2007 (status: already digital)

3) Tracings of a small selection of graffiti created during the 2008 field season (status: already digitised)

4) 3D-models of a small selection of graffiti created during the 2009 field season (status: already digital)

5) RTI files created during the 2011 and 2012 field seasons (status: already digital)

Additional data sets that are planned to be made available via the Musawwarat Graffiti Archive are part of the Musawwarat archive at the Department of Northeast African Archaeology and Cultural Studies, Institute of Archaeology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. They comprise the following:

Ursula Hintze Collection (1960s):

6) Black and white photographs of a selection of the graffiti taken in the late 1960s (status: digitised, in the process of being catalogued by the Musawwarat Graffiti Project)

7) Written documentation of a selection of graffiti from the 1960s, including a card catalogue (status: digitised and catalogued by the Musawwarat Graffiti Project)

8) Drawings of a selection of the graffiti from the 1970s (status: digitised, in the process of being catalogued by the Musawwarat Graffiti Project)

Pawel Wolf Collection (1990s):

9) c. 3000 colour slide photographs of a large part of the graffiti corpus taken in a systematic recording effort in the 1990s (status: already digitised by P. Wolf)

10) Aluminium foil impressions of the graffiti created in a systematic recording effort in the 1990s (status: digitised and catalogued by the Musawwarat Graffiti Project)