{
  "title": "The Cleaning — performed scholarship",
  "date": "2026-09-07",
  "method": "Built-in image_gen; native canvas articulation and SVG/CSS clipping for motion.",
  "assets": [
    {
      "file": "pithos-separated-v1.png",
      "role": "Original imagined terracotta storage vessel; not a replica of a named artifact.",
      "source": "/Users/douglasgoldstein/.codex/generated_images/01a074da-f43f-7a51-95e1-8f4429a39443/exec-24bcf2be-62d9-48f4-a369-be7db4d732bb.png",
      "prompt": "Use case: historical-scene. Asset type: an exquisite isolated object for a museum browser theatre about Pandora, agriculture and pregnancy. Create one large ancient Greek unglazed terracotta storage pithos, not an amphora: broad swelling belly, narrower thick mouth, short flat foot, no neck, subtle horizontal rope bands and small practical lug handles, aged dark ochre clay with fine irregular surface and hand-made imperfections. Show the open body in frontal three-quarter slight high viewpoint so the dark elliptical mouth can be seen. A separate simple low-domed clay lid floats ABOVE the jar with a completely clear gap. Composition: portrait 1024x1536, body occupies x18%..82%, y31%..91%, lid x31%..69%, y12%..19%; both centered on exactly the same vertical axis. Nothing connects the two objects. Lighting: very restrained, raking museum light from upper left, with a lit clay edge and deep nearly black shadow on the right. No theatrical glowing contents. No grain, no flowers, no figures, no scene, no writing or labels. The background MUST be genuinely transparent alpha, so the two shapes are clean isolated layers usable in animation, no floor or cast shadow outside the objects, no checkerboard baked into the image. This is an interpretive original illustration, not a claimed replica of a named artifact. Taste: quiet, material, tactile, archaic gravitas; no glossy fantasy vessel and no gold ornament.",
      "production_note": "The output did not provide useful background transparency. The untouched generated file is displayed through native curved clipping paths to articulate body and lid separately. A second attempted background extraction was not used."
    },
    {
      "file": "athena-clean-motion-v1.png",
      "role": "Clean background for articulating the existing imagined Athena pottery plate.",
      "source": "/Users/douglasgoldstein/.codex/generated_images/01a074da-f43f-7a51-95e1-8f4429a39443/exec-81c80da5-0116-4aa9-9b59-2673cc27b844.png",
      "reference": "source/museum/palimpsest/cleaning/worlds/athena.webp",
      "prompt": "Use case: precise-object-edit. Edit target: the attached Athena pottery plate, 1100x734 composition. This is the clean background layer for a reversible cut-paper style animation. Keep the entire image pixel-aligned in the EXACT original composition, proportions, colors, texture, and border. Remove ONLY Athena’s extended leftward arm from its cloth sleeve edge around (622,307), along the forearm to her fingers around (333,428); remove the hovering basket lid around x263..469,y426..476; and remove the small serpent head/neck above the basket around x308..349,y491..536. Fill those removed shapes with the surrounding mottled near-black pottery ground, and reconnect the top basket rim subtly where the serpent crossed it. KEEP her face, torso, OTHER arm resting on her knee, skirt, tree, column, basket and both Greek meander borders completely unchanged. Do NOT move or redraw her whole figure. The output remains a finished pottery plate with that one reaching arm, lid and serpent absent. No lettering, no annotations, no additional objects. Output the exact same aspect ratio, framing and extent. This clean plate will be underlaid beneath the original extracted arm, lid, and serpent, which our animation code will articulate.",
      "production_note": "Canvas clips original arm, lid and serpent shapes and moves them over this background. Generated alignment is approximate; the image is interpretive, not an ancient artifact."
    }
  ],
  "staging_limits": [
    "Pausanias’s Athena/Pandora ensemble is a spatial typographic reading, not a reconstruction of the statue or its relief.",
    "The pithos’s crop, light, opening, retained elpis and change to a box are interpretive staging. Grain and bodily contour express a scholarly and authorial reading, not attested contents of the jar or Arrhephoria burden.",
    "Psyche’s box and threshold are theatrical diagrams of Apuleius’s narrative, not archaeological objects.",
    "The manuscript leaves use legible modern paraphrase and ruled lines; they are not facsimiles. The missing exemplar is not claimed to be a palimpsest."
  ]
}