Weeping Lady

AA-002Interactive 3D capture

AA-002 / THE COLLECTION

Weeping Lady

A head resting on one hand, recorded under the descriptive project title “Weeping Lady” in the same gallery as Aphrodite Underwater. Its historical identity, date and reported Alexandrian provenance still need an object-specific reference.

RECORDED AT: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
LABELLED PROVENANCE: Alexandria, Egypt (reported; unverified)
CAPTURE DATE: 2025-12-12
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 +

The back of the head was never in view: the piece stands against the back wall of its case. What closes that side is a smooth surface following the head's curvature, not a reconstruction of anything photographed.

Capture and processing +

21 raw images processed into a mesh with Apple's PhotogrammetrySession (RealityKit) at raw detail, with real photographic texture. It was a limited-angle scan against the case's back wall, so the unseen back was never captured; that side is closed with a smooth alpha-wrap surface that follows the head's curvature, not an AI or manual reconstruction. Re-triangulated into a clean, uniform, fully watertight and 3D-printable mesh with no thin or self-intersecting faces.

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 Historical references do not certify scale, capture permission or academic review.

File provenance: these downloads are the ArchaeoArchive website release. A separate Commons file page ↗ records that upload’s version, author and licence. Check the file page when reusing its download; versions and licences must not be assumed identical. Historical-source links do not grant reuse rights in third-party material.

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Atabany, Omar. “Weeping Lady” (AA-002). ArchaeoArchive. https://archaeoarchive.com/view/weeping-lady.

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Weeping Lady

Weeping Lady

A surface.A photograph.A point of view.

Historical sources & uncertainty

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A surface.
A photograph.
A point of view.