actually, not that tedious, the hardest part is getting the non-permenant glue to stick, on pot sherds it is rather quick but on metal or stone not as quick. at the UofMN I worked with the 3-d imaging software, it takes between 5 to 15 pictures of each piece. and about 10 minutes per piece once you get your set-up done. A good tech could digitize that mask in an afternoon.
Good to hear that technology has spread. The tedious part I was referring to was in the old days where you’d see these guys take a piece and start saying, “Nope, let’s try this way”, doing it by hand.
I also understand that these folks have used DNA in the sheepskin to isolate Dead Sea Scroll fragments into families. I would imagine something akin to the above process would work here and rescue some otherwise lost writings.
What a splendid way to use technology!