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OCR-Based Field Extraction for Archaeological Pottery Metadata: The CENTURIA Dataset

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Pottery is a primary source for reconstructing the chronological and economic dimensions of past societies. Archaeologists often document ceramic finds through technical drawings and handwritten metadata. This metadata is critical for dating, provenance attribution, and cross-site comparison, but remains inaccessible to computational analysis, requiring manual transcription of every record. We investigate whether state-of-the-art document analysis models can address this task, and introduce CENTURIA, a dataset of 507 pottery records from the Roman site of Carnuntum, providing transcriptions, b

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