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IMAGE BY WEST SEMITIC RESEARCH

MESHA’S PHOTO SHOOT. In 2015, a team of researchers journeyed to the Louvre Museum to photograph the Mesha Stele using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). RTI combines multiple images, taken with light shining from different angles, to create a textured map of an object’s surface. Here, Kyle McCarter (left), Heather Parker (center), and Bruce Zuckerman (right) work to create an RTI image of the stela.