Property:material

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Property
Description: Describes the broad class of substances of which the object consists.
Type: Text
Allows value: stone, gneiss, schist, marble, limestone, sandstone, porphyry, bone, antler, horn, tooth, wood, pottery, gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, lead, unidentifiable


General

The property MATERIAL indicates the substances of the inscribed objects incorporated in the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. So far the following material indications are valid: stone, gneiss, schist, marble, limestone, sandstone, porphyry, bone, antler, horn, tooth, wood, pottery, gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, lead, unidentifiable. For the frequency distribution see below the statistics.
The first group describes the stone objects where the substances stone, gneiss, schist, marble, limestone, sandstone, porphyry belong to. The second class contains all metal substances like gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, lead. The third category reveals on the one hand the broad group of pottery, on the other hand the class of organic material objects like bone, antler, horn, tooth, wood. Furthermore the possibile value "unidentifiable" is incorporated in this third category.
The separation of bone and antler was retained because of the facilitation of discussion regarding some objects and their materials.

Maps

The following maps visualise the distribution of archaeological objects per material where a presorting concerning "STONE OBJECTS" (Map 1), "METAL OBJECTS" (Map 2) and "POTTERY and OTHER MATERIALS" (Map 3) was already made.

Stone objects (Map 1)

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Marker 030.png gneiss (0); Marker 090.png schist (2); Marker 210.png marble (0); Marker 240.png limestone (0); Marker 180.png porphyry (4); Marker 060.png sandstone (2); Marker 000.png stone (9)

Metal objects (Map 2)

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Marker 360.png iron (31); Marker 060.png gold (0); Marker 210.png silver (1); Marker 240.png lead (1); Marker 150.png copper (0); Marker 090.png bronze (72);

Pottery and objects made of other materials (Map 3)

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Marker 360.png pottery (72); Marker 060.png bone (40); Marker 240.png antler (51); Marker 150.png tooth (1); Marker 180.png horn (0); Marker 090.png wood (1); Marker 000.png unidentifiable (0)

Statistics

Number of pages in the Category:Object (293) per "material":

material occurrence  
pottery
73 24.91 % show list
stone
9 3.07 % show list
gold
0 0.00 % show list
silver
1 0.34 % [[AV-1 ring|show page]]
bronze
77 26.27 % show list
copper
0 0.00 % show list
iron
31 10.58 % show list
lead
1 0.34 % [[MA-24 ingot|show page]]
antler
51 17.40 % show list
bone
40 13.65 % show list
horn
0 0.00 % show list
wood
1 0.34 % [[RN-2 rod|show page]]
tooth
1 0.34 % [[SZ-49 tusk|show page]]
unidentifiable
0 0.00 % show list
gneiss
0 0.00 % show list
marble
0 0.00 % show list
limestone
0 0.00 % show list
sandstone
2 0.68 % show list
porphyry
4 1.36 % show list
schist
2 0.68 % show list
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