Made with a Nikon D7500 camera. Manual settings were used because there was insufficient lighting. (in raw format, images have been post-processed – Lightroom) In this lighting: f/4.5; 1/60 s; ISO-200; max.aperture: 3.6; Focal length 18 mm
127 images, with X-Y axis scale bars. (Agisoft Metashape) 861.000 faces, 431.000 vertices.
Place, object: Eger, Hungary, in the Dobó István Castle Museum, in the barracks room of the castle of Eger, an inscribed stone carved to commemorate a building in 1542.
Why it was assessed: The inscription was illegible, so the colour and texture of the stone was not important, only that the 3D model (2.5D) would be rich in detail at the end. It was. Using the height model, I chose a level line display, with level line intervals of 0.5 millimeters. Thus, the engraved text became visible, even what was not visible to the naked eye.
This method can be used for any similar work. For engraved figures and inscriptions, I recommend level line display with level line intervals of at least 0.1-0.5 millimeters (can be smaller in the case of coins).
With the help of this, the local archaeologist Gergely Rákóczi translated the Latin inscription exactly.
I chose a level line display, with level line intervals of 0.5 millimeters.
I have already put that scale in QGIS. I exported a geo tiff with local coordinates from Metashape and imported it into QGIS.
The correct Latin text can be translated into Hungarian as follows:
„Az egri várnak eme új építményét a tekintetes és méltóságos Perényi Péter úr, Abaúj vármegye örökös főispánja, királyi tárnokmester, főkancellár, a magyar király és Magyarország főkapitánya kezdte építeni az Úr 1542. esztendejében Szent György napja körül [április 24.].”
Fordítás: Rákóczi Gergely régész, Dobó István Vármúzeum
In English, approx:
„This new building of the castle of Eger was begun in the year of our Lord 1542, about the day of St. George [April 24], by the distinguished and worthy Peter Perényi, hereditary chief bailiff of the county of Abaúj, royal master of the coadjutors, chancellor-general, king of Hungary and captain-general of Hungary.”
[The Varkoch gate bastion was built in 1542 in the castle of Eger.]
Translated by archaeologist Rákóczi Gergely,
István Dobó Castle Museum
More in Hungarian: https://rkl.hu/egy-felezer-eves-kobe-vesett-felirat-3d-felmerese/
Rácz Kristóf László – rkl.hu