Physical description

TEI definition: physDesc

Information describing the physical aspects of an inscription is encoded in the <physDesc> element, which is part of the <teiHeader>. The following subsections of these guidelines address specific aspects of this encoding:

If, rather than breaking down the description of various aspects of the support, the editor prefers a single unstructured prose passage describing the object, the <physDesc> may contain one or more <p> (paragraph) elements as an alternative to (but not in addition to) the structured elements described in the sections linked above.

<physDesc>
<objectDesc>
  <supportDesc>
   <support>
    <p>
     <material>Bronze</material> Sextarius</p>
   </support>
  </supportDesc>
  <layoutDesc>
   <layout>inscribed on the outside just below the rim</layout>
  </layoutDesc>
</objectDesc>
<handDesc>
  <handNote>Fourth-century A.D. script; <height>0.02</height>
  </handNote>
</handDesc>
</physDesc>

Responsibility for this section

Tom ElliottGabriel bodardSimona Stoyanova, author

Date: 2013-05-02