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:

Statistics

Number of pages in the Category:Inscription (510) per "position":

position	occurrence
front		76	14.90 %	show list
back		27	5.29 %	show list
left-hand side		10	1.96 %	show list
right-hand side		8	1.56 %	show list
centre		13	2.54 %	show list
top		21	4.11 %	show list
bottom		118	23.13 %	show list
neck		6	1.17 %	show list
shoulder		48	9.41 %	show list
foot		84	16.47 %	show list
handle		3	0.58 %	show list
inside		42	8.23 %	show list
outside		276	54.11 %	show list
unknown		67	13.13 %	show list
wall		27	5.29 %	show list
rim		3	0.58 %	show list
side		2	0.39 %	show list