3D Ogham Project Presentation
Channel: CelticMythPodshow
Date: 2014-01-13

A team at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies are creating a publicly accessible database of 3D models of 400 Ogham Stones. Using an Artec Eva 3D scanner these models are not only going to be viewable online at the DIAS website but high detail *.OBJ files are available for download for further study.

Ogham stones are among Ireland's most remarkable national treasures. These perpendicular cut stones bear inscriptions in the uniquely Irish Ogham alphabet, using a system of notches and horizontal or diagonal lines/scores to represent the sounds of an early form of the Irish language. The stones are inscribed with the names of prominent people and sometimes tribal affiliation or geographical areas. These inscriptions constitute the earliest recorded form of Irish and, as our earliest written records dating back at least as far as the 5th century AD, are a significant resource for historians, as well as linguists and archaeologists.

This is not our work. This video was produced by the 3D Ogham Project Team at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Ireland License. See the original at the link below.

http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/menu.php?lang=en&menuitem=00
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ie/deed.en_US