Description of decoration or iconography

Iconography, decorative features or other imagery on the support or alongside the text may be described in prose as part of the description of object and/or text campus, or may be encoded in its own section using the <decoDesc> and <decoNote> elements. In the former case, some projects have used an <rs> with type of "decoration" to tag keywords within the description for indexing.

<decoDesc>
 <decoNote>Egg and dart moulding along the top of the block.</decoNote>
</decoDesc>
<support> White marble sarcophagus with columnar <rs type="decoration">arcade</rs> design.
</support>InsAph: 11.35

Responsibility for this section

  1. Gabriel Bodard, author
Date: 2013-05-02