Abstrakt
Due to the character of tuff stone, facades of Etruscan rock-cut tombs suffer from heavy erosion caused mainly by water and vegetation. Carved decorations as well as inscriptions are slowly vanishing, and rarely preserved detached fragments of decorations are scattered around sites and museums.
It is about the right time to try to find a solution against the degradation of these monuments and preserve the information about this kind of Etruscan rock art. This study examines a multi-image photogrammetry as a tool for the documentation, digital preservation and archaeological analysis of the tomb facades, which is based on increased readability of worked surface and other actions which allows a virtual environment.
Furthermore, the advantages, disadvantages, possibilities and limitations of this technique applied on this specific kind of rock art are evaluated. Moreover, I explore new ways of the further use of acquired data in virtual reconstruction and virtual anastylosis.