provenience
- noun
- /prəˈviːniəns/
- Specialized
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proveniencia
- The artifact's provenience has been well-documented, tracing its origins back to ancient Egypt.
Examples
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A form of decorated men's shirt in Sierra Leone raises issues not only of its own provenience but of its relationships to similar West African dress.
Academic text (2007) -
The chemical composition of the vessel, which resembles the chemical profile for eighth-century A.D. pottery production in the Naranjo vicinity, further verifies this provenience.
Academic text (2003) -
However, at present, its provenience is unknown.
Academic text (1997) -
Groups of fragments without individual provenience were combined and repacked.
Academic text (2009) -
Like all other discoveries of the past several years from the site, it lacked any archaeological provenience.
Academic text (2004) -
As he wrote in 1953, "The point of view for purchasing an ethnological piece is entirely different from the artistic point of view than it is from the scientific one," and he threatened to return some pieces unless he could get their provenience documentation.
Academic text (2006) -
Many pictorial vessels have no archaeological provenience, and most sites' excavated ceramics are in many different styles, hindering comparison.
Academic text (2003) -
THE POWER OF PROVENIENCE
Academic text (2003) -
Although I have no information about the provenience of the Hamburg tusk, the Chicago and Montreal ivories have each been independently linked, although not with certainty, to Dr. Allman.
Academic text (1997) -
Researchers are studying the provenience of the bones found at the archaeological site to determine their age.
Synonyms
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5.0
A place where something begins or develops
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2.7
A place where an idea, activity, or movement first started
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7.9
The place or early history that shows where an object comes from
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3.5
The location where someone or something first started to exist
Surface Forms
Etymology
Provenience comes from the Latin parts pro- 'forth' and venire 'to come', so it means 'coming from' a place. That's why provenience today names the original place or early history of an object, which is why archaeologists carefully record where each find came from.