Property:material
| 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)
gneiss (0);
schist (2);
marble (0);
limestone (0);
porphyry (4);
sandstone (2);
stone (9)
Metal objects (Map 2)
iron (31);
gold (0);
silver (1);
lead (1);
copper (0);
bronze (72);
Pottery and objects made of other materials (Map 3)
pottery (72);
bone (40);
antler (51);
tooth (1);
horn (0);
wood (1);
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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