VESSEL DESIGNATION - Humanities
- Field label
- VESSEL DESIGNATION
- Field mnemonic
- VESD
- Field name
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- Vessel Designation
- Désignation du récipient
- Field definition
- This field contains a site-specific designation identifying the vessel to which a sherd related to the object belongs.
- Heading
- FIELDS FOR CERAMICS, CONTAINERS OR VESSELS
- Comments
- NOTE: This field has NOT been updated as part of the May 2010 Data Dictionary update. Priority for the Data Dictionary update was given to those fields that are required or strongly recommended for Artefacts Canada contribution. The Entry Rules for this field will be updated at a later date.
- Entry rules
- Enter the vessel designation as assigned by the archaeologist. Attributed data should be followed by space "?".
- Cataloguers rules
- Used for ceramic vessels, as assigned by the archaeologist, usually after reconstruction.
- Data type
- alpha-numeric string
- Examples
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- ceramic type A1
- site type 3 ?
- G-AC
- céramique de type A1
- in situ type 3
- Discipline
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- Archaeology
- Field label (French)
- DESIGNATION DU RECIPIENT
- Field mnemonic (French)
- DERE
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