Barque-state
Limbs relaxed into a shallow hull-line; the posture in which the object was found.
Cataloguer’s Coda · interpretive material
The Fourth Condition
Three configurations are held by the object record. A fourth belongs to an observation of light. The holdings do not turn their relation into a conclusion.
Conditions retained in separate records
The line has been entered more than once.
Transitional
Limbs partially recovered; string seated at the lower nock only.
Bow-state
Limbs fully recurved; string bearing; preserved in the 1909 field photographs.
Arc-state
A coloured arc recorded before sunrise, held at a fixed bearing while the sun’s rising point moved.
Arrangement table
Place the surviving elements in relation.
This is not a test and it does not ask for a word. Select an element, then a place on the table; on desktop, the pieces may also be dragged. The arrangement remains a reader’s working relationship, not a historical conclusion.
No arrangement has been retained.
RawithinBow
You have established a visual reading the archive cannot name as history. The records remain records; the association remains an association; the recognition belongs to the person who arranged them.
Cataloguer’s caution
What the file can retain.
- Record
- Documents describe an object, a stela, a pre-dawn observation, and separate circumstances of recovery.
- Association
- Some materials can be placed beside one another without demonstrating origin, mechanism, or cause.
- Unresolved interpretation
- The archive does not convert an arrangement into a historical claim.
- Reader recognition
- A visual relationship may become difficult to unsee once it has been made.