Class: E34.Inscription

comment: "This class comprises recognisable, short texts attached to instances of E24.Physical Man-Made Thing. The transcription of the text can be documented in a note by P3 has note: E62 String. The alphabet used can be documented by P2 has type: E55 Type. This class does not intend to describe the idiosyncratic characteristics of an individual physical embodiment of an inscription, but the underlying prototype. The physical embodiment is modelled in the CRM as E24 Physical Man-Made Thing. The relationship of a physical copy of a book to the text it contains is modelled using E84 Information Carrier P128 carries (is carried by): E33 Linguistic Object. Examples: "keep of the grass" on a sign stuck in the lawn of the quad of Balliol College, Kilroy was here, The text published in Corpus Inscriptionum LatinarumV 895." (string)

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