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CIDOC Core Data Standard for Archaeological Objects

0 IDENTIFICATION  
  0.1 Computer record number  
Number automatically generated by the system
  0.2 Link to other records  
Number(s) of the records for similar objects, to manage according to the system
1 INSTITUTION(S)  
  1.1 INSTITUTION WHERE THE OBJECT DESCRIBED IS KEPT
1.1.1
Name of the institution  
    Official name of the institution in the mother tongue, eg musée du Louvre, National Museum, Museo Arqueologico
1.1.2
Location of the institution  
    1.1.2.1 Country  
    1.1.2.2 Intermediary administrative division, eg Bouches-du-Rhône, Lazio, Cambridgeshire
    1.1.2.3 Commune, district, borough, eg Marseille, Roma, Cambridge
    1.1.2.4 Smaller adminsitrative division (hamlet, locality), eg Ostia
  1.2 INSTITUTION LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OBJECT
  Where the proprietary institution is curatorially responsible for the object, arrange for automatic duplication from 1.1
1.2.1
Name of the institution  
      see 1.1.1  
 
1.2.2
Location of the institution  
    1.2.2.1 see 1.1.2.1  
    1.2.2.2 see 1.1.2.2  
    1.2.2.3 see 1.1.2.3  
    1.2.2.4 see 1.1.2.4
 

2
IDENTIFICATION REFERENCES  
  2.1 Inventory number of the work  
  Unique number given by the proprietary museum  
  2.2 References to the stratum (?)  
  2.3 Number of the object given on site  
3 NAME OF THE OBJECT  
  3.1 Category  
  Give the main functional types for the object, eg funerary object, object for transport  
  3.2 Designation  
  3.3 Name  
  3.4 Details  
  Specify if it is a fragment, a set, or if the object belongs to a set, eg fragment, set, part of group

Specify, if applicable, the number of items in the group

4 TITLE - DESCRIPTION - ICONOGRAPHY
  4.1 Title of the work  
  4.2 Description  
  4.3 Iconographic analysis  
5 MATERIAL - TECHNIQUE  
  5.1 Material  
  List of materials used in the manufacture of a 3D object
  5.2 Technique  
  Technique(s) in the manufacture of a 3D object  
  5.3 Further information (optional)  
  Clear description allowing the association of the materials and techniques so as to account for the complexity of the object
6 DIMENSIONS AND FORM  
  6.1 Unit  
  Dimensions are normally given in centimetres  
  6.2 Height: h  
  6.3 Length: l  
  6.4 Depth: d  
  6.5 Diameter: di  
  6.6 Weight: w  
  6.7 Form  
7 ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT  
  7.1 Manner of discovery  
  Eg chance find, regular excavations (institution), inventor
  7.2 Place of discovery  
  Eg country, region, département, district, borough, locality

Also provide precise references for the site, eg Lambert co-ordinates

Other details, eg grotto, house, square

  7.3 Level, layer  
  7.4 Significant associations  
  Eg in a hearth, a tomb etc
8 AUTHOR AND CULTURAL MILIEU  
  8.1 Actual or ascribed author (if known)  
  Eg painter of "Pan"
  8.2 Justification of the attribution  
  Specify the reasons (signature, literacy sources, style etc) and, if possible, the author of the attribution
Choose the most usual transcription of Proper Names (possibly add a phonetic transcription in brackets)
  8.3 Region, style, workshop  
  Eg Seine Oise Marne (Protohistory), "oriental style" (Greek ceramics), Lazoux (sigillée), Trèves (coin)
9 INSCRIPTIONS AND MARKS  
  9.1 "Type"  
  Eg stamped, en exergue, engraved  
  9.2 Position  
  9.3 Description of transcription  
  9.4 Language of the inscription (if applicable)  
  Indicate the language of the inscription, the alphabet, the height of the letters etc
 
10 DATE AND EPOCH  
  10.1 Dating by year  
  Exceptional: coin, inscription  
  10.2 Epoch  
  Dating by millennium, period, reign, century etc, eg La Tène I, 1stC BC, Thinite Era, Cycladic Middle Bronze Age
11 ACQUISITION  
  11.1 Acquisition method  
  Eg purchase, donation, bequest  
  11.2 Date of acquisition (by year)  
  11.3 Previous owner  
  Give the name of the previous owner of the work (collector, gallery, institution) prior to its acquisition by the museum
12 STATE OF CONSERVATION
  12.1 Treatment - restoration
  12.2 Analyses  
         



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