Property:position

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Description: Describes the location of the inscription on the object.
Type: String
Allows value: front, back, left-hand side, right-hand side, side, centre, top, bottom, neck, shoulder, wall, foot, handle, rim, inside, outside, unknown

Definitions

The used values belong to two different levels:

1. Values of general position, which are only useable with objects with a natural or intuitively obvious orientation – generally, such objects are described as they were orientated during usage: rock walls, stelae, vessels, articles of habiliment, statuettes, etc. Some values are only useful for certain object shapes (e.g., right and left or front and back can not be applied to rotationally symmetric objects, "inside" and "outside" only concern containers and helmets).

top top or upper area
bottom bottom or lower area
centre central area
left-hand side left-hand side or area
right-hand side right-hand side or area
side lateral area
front front or face side, upper surface
back back side, lower surface
inside on vessels and helmets
outside on vessels and helmets

Note that in some cases, the inscription itself may determine its own position, e.g. front = side with the inscription on it, on objects whose specific purpose was bearing the inscription (slabs, plaques).

2. Values for parts of vessels: neck, wall, shoulder, bottom, foot; cf. the following drawing:

Used terms for the Property:position on pottery vessels

Statistics

Number of pages in the Category:Inscription (511) per "position":

position occurrence  
front
75 14.67 % show list
back
27 5.28 % show list
left-hand side
10 1.95 % show list
right-hand side
8 1.56 % show list
centre
15 2.93 % show list
top
21 4.10 % show list
bottom
104 20.35 % show list
neck
7 1.36 % show list
shoulder
48 9.39 % show list
foot
66 12.91 % show list
handle
3 0.58 % show list
inside
37 7.24 % show list
outside
260 50.88 % show list
unknown
89 17.41 % show list
wall
22 4.30 % show list
rim
2 0.39 % show list
side
2 0.39 % show list
Showing 20 pages using this property.
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outside  +, wall  +
shoulder  +, outside  +
shoulder  +, outside  +
bottom  +, outside  +
bottom  +, outside  +
shoulder  +, outside  +
bottom  +, outside  +
front  +, top  +
front  +, bottom  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
outside  +
foot  +, outside  +
bottom  +, outside  +

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{ "type": "PROPERTY_CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA", "constraints": { "type_constraint": "_txt", "allowed_values": [ "front", "back", "left-hand side", "right-hand side", "centre", "top", "bottom", "neck", "shoulder", "foot", "handle", "inside", "outside", "unknown", "wall", "rim", "side" ] } }