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Let's use [this vessel](https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/292468) to look at examples of how you can present tombstone data in a paper or a presentation. It is important that you give the reader this information in a concise way, but there are a few different approaches you can use. As you go through the examples, imagine you are using this example in your paper to make a certain arguemnt.



 

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 Lekythos (oil flask): Nike (Victory) Pouring a Libation at an Altar, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler 3 Museum, Loan from Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. Rosamond U. Hunter, Photo President and Fellows of Harvard College, 4.1908. Image used with permission from Harvard Art Museums.



   

 

 

 

 

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##  Incorporating the information into your writing

 "We can see this phenomenon happening on an Attic, red-figure lekythos attributed to the Berlin Painter (c. 490 BCE; Harvard Art Museums 4.1908).”

 If we break this sentence down, we can see:

Sort    **Sentence** 

  **Data Category** 

    Attic (Attic clay) 

  Material 

    Red-figure 

  Style 

    Lekythos 

  Type 

    Berlin Painter 

  Artist 

    c. 490 BCE 

  Date 

    Harvard Art Museums 4.1908 

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 Note that *provenance* is missing, because scholars don’t know where this vessel came from. In this example, all the available tombstone data is provided in the paragraph itself. Some information is incorporated into the main text of the sentence, while other data is given in parentheses. In this case, you can almost consider the museum number as a parenthetical citation.



 

 

 



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##  Put some or all of the tombstone information into a footnote.

 “We can see this trend on an oil flask dating to around 490 BCE.”1

 1. Attic, red-figure lekythos, attributed to the Berlin Painter (Harvard Art Museums 4.1908).

 In this example, only the date is given in the paragraph, and the rest of the information is in a footnote. In this hypothetical example, this is because for the paper, the date is the most important feature, and the paper wants to stress its importance. When to use this approach will be dictated by the needs of your paper, and which properties of an object you want to emphasize.