The Golden Bond: Unfolding the Kapulukaya Hoard

Overview

Project duration: 2026 - 2026 Date coverage: 364 - 378 Website Contact

Digital Cultural Heritage 3D / 4D modelling and reconstruction Digitization of collections Museum Archaeological or architectural heritage

The Golden Bond is aninteractive digital heritage application presenting the Kapulukaya Hoard, a Late Roman assemblage of twenty-one gold solidi and a terracotta vessel associated with the Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum. The project combines 3D digitisation, annotated close reading, historical mapping, WebXR access, semantic metadata and audience analytics to make a small but highly significant micro-heritage collection accessible to museum visitors, researchers and online audiences.

Project partners

Lead partners

Other partners

  • Ankara University

Public datasets

Kapulukaya Hoard

This dataset documents the Kapulukaya Hoard, an assemblage associated with the Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum comprising a terracotta vessel and twenty-one Late Roman gold solidi struck at Antioch between the reigns of Valentinian I and Valentinian II. It includes CIDOC CRM-aligned object metadata, CRMdig-informed digitisation and optimisation paradata, Nomisma-linked numismatic alignment, OCRE and CHRE reconciliation notes, and a human-readable catalogue linking object records to the optimised 3D assets used in the Golden Bond application.

License: CC BY

With financial support by

European Union, 3DBigDataSpace, Grant Agreement No. 101173385