ABSTRACT
The collection of marble statues from the Antikythera Shipwreck consists of numerous statues sculpted in white marble from the Greek Island of Paros. The statues were found in a fragmentary condition and they were conserved either immediately after they became part of the National Archaeological Museum's collections or later in the 1970s. They were restored by adhering the broken parts and installing metallic dowels within the joints. In order to ensure that metallic reinforcement was used in the joints, it was necessary to image the nonvisible metallic dowels installed in these statues. The prime option was to use γ-ray imaging, which would give a positive image of the dowels with all the details of their dimensions, surface relief, and so on. The disadvantage of γ-ray imaging is that it is expensive and requires high levels of protection. So, it was decided to use instead the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technique that was believed to give the second-best results.
