Object

Belloq's Scale Model

Belloq's painstaking scale model fills the map room table as a detailed diorama with miniatures, a red-painted marker, and a taut white measuring tape stretched from a miniature building to a tiny map room. Indy leans close, tracing the mosaic baseline where sunlight slides across the layout, exposing Nazi calculations for the Ark's location. Belloq crafted it to pinpoint the site through staff placement and solar alignment.

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Purpose

Calculates the Ark of the Covenant's precise location using measurements, painted markers, staff baseline, and sunlight progression across the diorama

Significance

Serves as forensic proof that Belloq and the Nazis decoded the map room, heightening Indy's urgency to reach the site first and raising the moral stakes of the race

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Indy Decodes Belloq's Model — Nazi Calculations Revealed

Belloq's scale model serves as the central evidence array Indy inspects: it consolidates painted markers, a calibrated tape, and a mosaic baseline into a single physical representation of the Tanis site. Indy interprets its elements to convert small-scale measurements into a full-scale archaeological revelation.

Before: On the map-room table as Belloq's prepared diorama containing miniature buildings, tapes, and mosaic details.

After: Remains on the table but has been closely examined by Indy; its markings are now recognized as active intelligence rather than inert study.

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