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With the establishment of the cooperation project between the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and the archaeological mission in Hattuša of the German Archaeological Institute of Istanbul, directed by Andreas Schachner, and in agreement with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, a workgroup of the University of Naples was formed in order to carry out a 3D survey campaign concerning sections of the site of Hattusa and the entire site of azılıkaya. These activities have been finalized at creating integrated 3D models of both the territorial context and of the monuments object of the research, through the application of diverse scanning techniques, in accordance to the different levels of detail required for each subject (topography, rocky complex, the cultural spaces therein, complex of sculptural reliefs, inscriptions accompanying the divine representations) and to virtually reproduce them for safeguard, exhibition and study purposes (with particular emphasis on the epigraphic and historic-artistic point of view) all the geometric aspects characterizing the artefacts and, in many cases, not completely visible to the naked eye today.