Property:position

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

Definition

Generally, an object is described as it should have been orientated during usage. Some values are only useful for certain object shapes (e.g. "right" and "left" or "front" and "back" usually can not be applied to rotationally symmetric objects, "inside" and "outside" only concern containers). The used values belong to different hierarchical levels:

• Values for the side of the object: front, back; left-hand side, right-hand side; top, bottom
• Values for the specific area on the side: front area, centre, back area; left area, centre, right area; upper area, centre, lower area
• Values for named parts of the object: e.g. shoulder, handle

To facilitate orientation, values are assigned based on the display of the object in the drawing. The following table indicates the norms followed by TIR:

bone (crude)	caput tibiae to the left
bone point	point to the left

For parts of ceramic vessels compare the following drawing:

Statistics

Number of pages in the Category:Inscription (319) per "position":

position	occurrence
front		92	28.84 %	show list
back		23	7.21 %	show list
top		6	1.88 %	show list
bottom		79	24.76 %	show list
inside		17	5.32 %	show list
outside		67	21.00 %	show list
neck		0	0.00 %	show list
shoulder		6	1.88 %	show list
foot		13	4.07 %	show list
handle		21	6.58 %	show list
rim		22	6.89 %	show list
tang		2	0.62 %	show list
unknown		15	4.70 %	show list
medial		7	2.19 %	show list
lateral		4	1.25 %	show list
left		12	3.76 %	show list
right		18	5.64 %	show list
proximal		2	0.62 %	show list
distal		0	0.00 %	show list
blade		0	0.00 %	show list
calotte		0	0.00 %	show list
wall		0	0.00 %	show list