Restoring the Ruin
Cataloguing remains
Korres's team created a computer
database of all original pieces. By entering, in some cases, over 50
criteria to identify each piece—among them height, width,
slope, corrosion, cracking, stain marks, and even
graffiti—they hoped the computer could aid them in finding
each remnant's original position on the building. But often
differences in the pieces are so subtle that they must abandon the
computer and match fragments by eye.