monument
Let an agent handle monuments by what they commemorate, form, location, protection and contested meaning.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle monuments by what they commemorate, form, location, protection and contested meaning.
A structure erected to commemorate a person, event or group, or a building or site of historical or artistic significance, such as a memorial, obelisk, mausoleum or tomb.
What it is for: Remembering people and events and marking places of significance.
It can be visit and study it; protect and conserve it; interpret it, with context; remove or relocate it, through lawful processes.
Distinguishing features
Commemorative purpose
Often protected as heritage
Meaning can be contested and change over time
Includes funerary monuments and memorial trees
What it looks like
Statues, obelisks, stones, tombs such as turbe or mazars, plaques and memorial trees such as Luther oaks.
Physical character
height: 0.5-170 m - plaques to the Washington Monument at 169 m
How it is recognised
Inscriptions and dedications
Commemorative forms such as obelisks and statues
Heritage listing plaques
Related models
is a kind of - dual nature
commemorates - subject
is protected as - listing
is confused with - protected natural features
In practice
Families and kinds
memorials and war memorials
statues and obelisks
tombs and mausoleums such as turbe
shrines and mazars
natural monuments and memorial trees
Identifiers
heritage listing number jurisdiction-specific protected monuments
Standards and regulation
Heritage protection law
Venice Charter on conservation
Law on war graves and memorials
Failure modes and hazards
Vandalism and theft
Structural decay
Disputes over contested monuments
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Commemoration What it remembers.
Purpose defines a monument.
Subject
Person or event.
Subject
What is commemorated.
- Who or what does it commemorate? definition
- What does the inscription say? provenance
Origin
Who erected it and when.
Origin
Commissioning.
- Who erected it, and when? provenance
- Why? provenance
Form What it is.
Form and materials determine care.
Type
Statue, obelisk, tomb.
Type
Monument type.
- What type of monument is it? definition
- Who designed it? provenance
Materials
Stone, bronze.
Materials
Materials and condition.
- What is it made of? definition
- What condition is it in? measurement
Protection Heritage status.
Protection governs change.
Status
Listing.
Status
Protection status.
- Is it protected, at which level? provenance
- Who owns it? provenance
Conservation
Care.
Conservation
Conservation needs.
- What conservation does it need? action
- Who is responsible? provenance
Meaning Interpretation and debate.
Monuments carry meanings that change.
Interpretation
Context.
Interpretation
Historical context.
- What historical context is needed to understand it? definition
- Is interpretation provided on site? definition
Debate
Contested monuments.
Debate
Contestation.
- Is the monument contested, and by whom? boundary
- Which process decides its future? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should monument types be separate entries?
- How should contested meanings be represented neutrally?
- How should funerary monuments be linked to burials?