HBIM in archaeology, between research and valorization. Data and perspectives for Thuburbo Maius (Tunisia)

A century after the anastylosis intervention that affected its SW portico (Merlin 1915; Poinssot 1915), the so-called Palestra dei Petronii of Thubur- bo Maius (Henkir el Kasbat, El Fahs) (Figs. 1-2) was chosen as the object of a research axis of the Tunisian-Italian cooperation program that links the Institut National du Patrimoine and the Université de La Manouba to the Uni- versity of Bologna, in partnership with Sapienza University of Rome 1. In the framework of that collaboration, the archaeological and architectural study of the monument was also aimed at creating a dossier on which to base the design of a new restoration and a new layout. In this perspective, the Palestra of Petronii has become the case study for the experimentation of an HBIM approach, functional both for research and for valorization