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This class comprises internationally agreed types of vessel parts that can are declared in the abstract and can be assigned by appropriate experts to individual objects, fragmented or not, in order to identify their parthood status within the context of an overall vessel. The attribution of an instance of U11 Vessel Part to an individual real world object is based on the morphological characteristics (curvature, thickness, surface finish) of that object and may aid in the identification of an overall vessel shape (U10). Vessel part groupings are typically organized hierarchically, 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An instance of U11 Shape comes into being upon its declaration and continues to exist thereafter even if disproven or superseded, so long as it remains an object of discourse in scientific literature.

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