The Funeral Area in “ponte Della Lama-canosa”( Iii-vi Century). an Hypothesis of 3d Historical-monumental Reconstruction

The article introduces two three-dimensional rebuilding methods in the Roman necropolis of the Ponte della Lama in Canosa di Puglia, constituted by a cemetery complex with characteristics which do not find any match in other Apulian funeral contexts: the articulation in open sky structures and underground rooms made up by catacombs and small hypogea, with continuity of usage for at least five centuries, from II to VI. In order to recover a cultural heritage that, because of static problems, risks not to be accessible any more, the Scanning Laser technique has been applied with innovative technologies of the terrestrial Laser Scanner Leica HDS 3000 inside a gallery of the catacomb and the re-elaboration with the real modeling and management of the cloud program and the proposal of rebuilding of one of the mausoleums of the partly destroyed sub divo area, in order to recreate the site and the landscape in its natural environment, by CAD environment, Lightwave modeling, texturing setting.