Property:position
Description: | Describes the location of the inscription on the object. |
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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 | |||
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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 | 116 | 22.74 % | 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 | 40 | 7.84 % | show list | |
outside | 275 | 53.92 % | show list | |
unknown | 70 | 13.72 % | show list | |
wall | 26 | 5.09 % | show list | |
rim | 3 | 0.58 % | show list | |
side | 2 | 0.39 % | show list |
Showing 4 related entities.
{ "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" ] } }