Description of decoration or iconography

2024-03-20

Relevant element documentation:

  • TEI definition: decoDesc ; EpiDoc-specific customization: decoDesc
  • TEI definition: decoNote ; EpiDoc-specific customization: decoNote
  • TEI definition: rs ; EpiDoc-specific customization: rs

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)

You can align your definitions by aligning to a local or to an external Controlled Vocabulary.

See also:

Other pages describing <decoDesc>:

    Other pages describing <decoNote>:

      Other pages describing <rs>:

      Responsibility for this section

      1. Gabriel Bodard, author

      EpiDoc version: 9.6

      Date: 2024-03-20