Ancient Tool Machines
Working with Ancient tools.
The FRAMe Project team researched, reconstructed and used three ancient Greek and Ptolemaic tool machines that can be considered as the ancestors of machine tools used by the ancient Craftsman in order to construct the parts of the Antikythera Mechanism.
Top, The ancient Greek attic red figure hydria painted by the “Galatin” painter (ca 490 BC), (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912, 13200. Photograph © 2005 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Presented in the red figure are (from left to right) Acrisius, the carpenter handling the bow drill, Danae and the wet nurse with Perseus. Bottom, the functional reconstruction of the bow drill according to the figure of hydria.
(A. Voulgaris, C. Mouratidis, A. Vossinakis, 2019a: “Ancient Machine Tools for the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism parts”, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritages Journal, 13, e00092, June 2019)
Top, The ancient Greek attic red figure krater painted by the “Foundry” or “Triptolemos” painter (ca 490-470 BC), on which are presented (from left to right) the carpenter, Danae with Perseus and Acrisius. This krater is exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (Photograph © State Hermitage Museum, ΓР 4531). Bottom, the functional reconstruction of the bow drill according to the figure of hydria.
(A. Voulgaris, C. Mouratidis, A. Vossinakis, 2019a: “Ancient Machine Tools for the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism parts”, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritages Journal, 13, e00092, June 2019)
Left, The engraved wall painting on the pronaos of Petosiris Tomb (North wall), depicts two craftsmen using a vertical lathe. Credits: German Archaeological Institute of Cairo, F-21204. Just below, The sketch of the same wall painting (Lefebvre, 1924, Planches, Dessins et Aquarelles de M. Hamzeh Carr). Right, the functional reconstruction of vertical lathe according to the wall painting of Petosiris Tomb.
(A. Voulgaris, C. Mouratidis, A. Vossinakis, 2019a: “Ancient Machine Tools for the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism parts”, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritages Journal, 13, e00092, June 2019)
