Place
→The Temple of Dendur
Completed by 10 CE · originally Dendur, Nubia · now at The Met, New York
Places
Sites through change
A place record separates original location, later movement, present stewardship, and what can be seen in current images.
Curator's evidence fileplaces / SITES-THROUGH-CHANGE
Sites through change
A place record separates original location, later movement, present stewardship, and what can be seen in current images.
| Observe | Describe material, form, marks, wear or spatial relation without assigning identity or purpose. Begin with “The Temple of Dendur.” |
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| Context | Locate the record in excavation, collection, restoration and display history. Check the chain against the page sources and linked institutional records. |
| Infer | Begin with observable features, connect each inference to a source, and mark the point where evidence gives way to a plausible but revisable interpretation. Tie every attribution to the feature that supports it and retain competing readings. |
| Withhold | Do not extend “The Temple of Dendur” beyond the date, sample, comparison or provenance actually documented. |
Provenance checkpoint
List each custody or documentation gap separately; an unknown interval is evidence about the record, not permission to invent continuity.
Catalogue note
Completed by 10 CE · originally Dendur, Nubia · now at The Met, New York Mark later repairs, labels and digital reconstructions as later interventions rather than original features.
Research-room promptWhat single comparison object, technical test or archive entry would most change the interpretation of Sites through change?