conciliation cross
Let an agent explain the conciliation cross, relay its purpose and history from history and heritage sources soberly, and distinguish it from a grave marker and from a religious wayside cross, treating the associated death with respect.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What it is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a conciliation cross, and how does it differ from a grave marker and a wayside cross? definition
- Is the associated death being treated with respect? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- How do atonement crosses and murder stones relate? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Purpose Purpose.
Atonement
Atonement.
Atonement
Atonement.
- How did a conciliation cross mark atonement for a killing? provenance
- Is the presentation sober and respectful? boundary
Memorial
Memorial.
Memorial
Memorial.
- How does the cross memorialise the site of a death? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
History History.
Period
Period.
Period
Period.
- When and where were conciliation crosses set up? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Custom
Legal custom.
Custom
Custom.
- What legal custom of atonement lay behind these crosses? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Context.
Heritage
Heritage.
Heritage
Heritage.
- How are surviving conciliation crosses protected and studied? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful? boundary
Crosses
Stone crosses.
Crosses
Crosses.
- How does the conciliation cross fit among stone crosses? provenance
- Which entry fits stone cross? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.BLT
What it is Filled
A conciliation cross is a type of old stone cross set up, mainly in central Europe in medieval and early modern times, to mark the site of a killing or as an act of atonement agreed between the offender s side and the victim s family; the registry treats it as a stone monument and murder stone. These crosses are memorials tied to a death, sometimes carved with a tool or symbol, and the entry treats them soberly and respectfully as historical monuments.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the conciliation cross, relay its purpose and history from history and heritage sources soberly, and distinguish it from a grave marker and from a religious wayside cross, treating the associated death with respect.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Stone cross
- Marks a killing or atonement
- Medieval and early modern
- Historical monument
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Move, damage, deface or remove a conciliation cross.
- Confuse it with a grave marker or a religious wayside cross.
- Treat the deaths they commemorate as entertainment or sensationalise them.
- Invent legends about a specific cross as fact.
Only with a human decision
- Restoring or relocating a cross.
May
- Describe conciliation crosses and their history from heritage and historical sources.
- Report damage, theft or disturbance of a cross to the heritage authority.
Moral aspects Filled
- The crosses commemorate real deaths and atonement, and deserve respect.
- They are protected heritage of local communities.
Who is affected
- Local communities
- Heritage bodies
- Descendants
Owners Filled
Steward
The landowner and the heritage protection authority.
Master systems
- Monument and heritage registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q17156398 - registry parent class
- Q1720510 - registry parent class
- Q3370053 - registry parent class
related
- stone cross - in registry terms
- monument
- grave marker
- wayside cross
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.conciliation-cross
- Wikidata: Q1640496 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1640496)
Direct properties required Filled
- material: stone note
- purpose: mark a killing or atonement note
- registry parents: stone cross, small monument note
Recognition required Filled
- Old stone cross marking a killing or atonement
- A conciliation cross or murder stone
- A grave marker stands at a burial; a wayside cross is a religious marker without the atonement link
- A simple, often weathered stone cross standing in the landscape, sometimes carved with a tool or emblem.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the monument
- relay its purpose and history
- distinguish it from a grave marker
- treat the associated death respectfully
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing with a grave marker
- Confusing with a religious wayside cross
- Insensitive treatment of the death
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Heritage protection for surviving monuments
Context of use required Filled
- Marking a killing or an act of atonement.
- atonement crosses
- murder stones
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1640496: conciliation cross - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Conciliation cross - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should atonement crosses and murder stones be distinguished?
- How should the associated death be treated respectfully?
- How should the stone-cross family be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1640496/spec.json