Aphrodite Underwater

AA-001Interactive 3D capture
Statue recorded as Aphrodite Underwater, photographed on museum display

AA-001 / THE COLLECTION

Aphrodite Underwater

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A statue recorded under the project title “Aphrodite Underwater”. Its reported underwater origin near Alexandria and Ptolemaic attribution still need an object-specific museum or excavation reference.

RECORDED AT
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
LABELLED PROVENANCE
Alexandria, Egypt (reported; unverified)
CAPTURE DATE
2026-05-20
PERIOD
Ptolemaic era (unverified)
ACCESS
Free to explore and download · CC BY 4.0
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THE RECORD BEHIND THE OBJECT

A surface.
A photograph.
A point of view.

What the capture shows +

Photographed through the glass of its case, and that session recorded no full camera-position data, so the alignment rests on the images alone. The draped surface still resolves cleanly.

Capture and processing +

21 raw images (photographed through its museum display case, gravity-only pose priors, no full ARKit pose data for this session) processed into a full 360° watertight mesh with Apple's PhotogrammetrySession (RealityKit) at raw detail (100k+ faces), cleaned up (self-intersecting faces fixed, holes closed) and texture-compressed to 4096px JPEG at high quality for the web. Replaces an earlier untextured, geometry-only version.

Record status +

Released: free to download, CC BY 4.0

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IDENTIFICATION & EVIDENCE

Historical sources & uncertainty

Historical identification and dating remain provisional until an object-specific reference is linked. Capture and processing information comes from the project record, not from a historical source.

An object-specific historical source is still needed. Corrections and readable label references are welcome.

AA numbers identify ArchaeoArchive records; they are not museum accession numbers. Capture dates describe photography, not the age of the object. Historical references do not certify scale, capture permission or academic review.

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Atabany, Omar. “Aphrodite Underwater” (AA-001). ArchaeoArchive. https://archaeoarchive.com/view/aphrodite-underwater.

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