Experimental 3D scansions of artefacts of different materials (pottery, obsidian, bone and metal) were carried out under the supervision of Flavia Amato on archaeological items stored in different museums of the Kakheti region (Lagodekhi, Sighnaghi and Gurjaani). The aim of this activity, which had been started in 2019, is threefold: 1) to train students and new members of the expedition (both Georgian and Italian) in the use of this innovative instrument, and 2) to test the instrument’s potentialities on different materials and to overcome some technical difficulties in its use, and 3) to create 3D models of artefacts to be studied and published by he expedition. The used instrument was the Structured Light HP David 3D scanner, that projects a pattern of light on the object and generates 3D models and mesh that can be imported and processed in most 3D applications, like the open-source systems MeshLab and Gigamesh. After the purely experimental stage of 2019, in 2021 we scanned for didactical purposes, with excellent results, some prehistoric objects stored at the Lagodekhi museum (Fig. 15). We also scanned, for comparison with the objects from Tsiteli Gorebi 5 discovered by the expedition, the objects from Varazashvili’s excavations at the other Tsiteli Gorebi sites presently exhibited at Sighnaghi Museum, and one objects from Gurjaani Museum (Fig.16).
