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This class comprises internationally agreed types of vessel parts assigned by appropriate experts to individual objects, fragmented or not. The Vessel Part declaration is based on the morphological characteristics (curvature, thickness, surface finish) of that object and may aid in the identification of vessel shape (U10). Vessel part groupings are often hierarchical, for example grouping ‘ring bases’ and ‘flat bases’ under bases. The substance of an instance of Vessel Part is a conceptual classification created for scientific analysis. An instance of Shape comes into being upon its declaration and continues to exist thereafter even if disproven or superseded, so long as it remains an object of discourse in scientific literature.

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