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This class comprises statements about the provenance of instances of E70 Thing existing at the time of making the provenance statements. An instance of I10 Provenance Statement must contain propositions about the presence of the respective instances of E70 Thing in an event or spatiotemporal context of reference. Characteristically, it may pertain to the writing by a known author at a known or unknown date or place, or to the existence of the text known to some public, regardless of the truth of authorship.

In case that only information objects exist describing the proper thing of interest, such as a photo, or photo of a photo, of a lost archaeological object, an instance of I10 Provenance
Statement should contain the relevant chain of intermediate events transferring the information from the proper thing of interest up to the extant information objects taken into account, or refer to it.

The property J20 is about the provenance of can be used to link the instance of I10 Provenance Statement as a whole, with the proper thing of interest. It constitutes a constraint to the provenance statement that it must contain the description of the relevant context of reference, and, if applicable, to the relevant chain of intermediate events transferring the information.

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