User Instructions
Query for a single attribute
By choosing a single attribute from the scrolling lists in fields: ‘Type of impressed tool/type of marked tool’, ‘Form’ and ‘Context dating’, and pressing the ‘Find’ button, all textile tools characterised by the chosen attribute will be displayed as results. The results represent the number of tools in the T&S database that contains this particular attribute.
Query for multiple attributes
It is possible to search for multiple attributes in one query by adding more attributes from the scrolling lists in fields: ‘Type of impressed tool/type of marked tool’, ‘Form’, ‘Context dating’, and pressing the ‘Find’ button. For example, if ‘Loom weight’ in ‘Type of impressed tool/type of marked tool’ and ‘Pyramidal truncated’ in ‘Form’ fields are selected together, all pyramidal truncated loom weights that are in the T&S database will be displayed as query results. Queries can be further pre-defined by choosing a site in the ‘Site’ field (single choice from the scrolling list). Fields ‘Use-wear’, ‘Seal-impressed’ and ‘Other markings’ allow ‘Yes’ or ‘No‘ choices. When ‘Yes‘ is chosen, the results display, respectively, tools with recorded use-wear, tools impressed by seals or marked by other markings. By choosing multiple choices from the scrolling lists in the fields ‘Type of impressed tool/type of marked tool’ and ‘Form’, the results will show all textile tools with the chosen features. For example, by choosing ‘Spherical’ and ‘Cylindrical’ in the ‘Form’ field, the results will show all textile tools in the T&S database, which are spherical or cylindrical in form (23 results).
The query with ‘OR instead of AND’ option
The ‘AND’ conjunction is chosen automatically for multiple queries in the ‘Context dating’ field. By choosing an inclusive disjunction ‘OR’, multiple choices from the scrolling lists are possible for this fields. For example, by choosing the ‘OR’ disjunction and ‘MBA II’ ‘OR‘ ‘MBA III’ in the ‘Context dating’ field, the results will show all textile tools in the T&S database, which are dated to Middle Bronze Age II or III phases.
Exporting query results
All query results can be exported to an Excel file by pressing the ‘Export’ button. The exported file contains a table comprising all textile tools characterised by the attributes preselected in the query. Records are referred to by table cells in rows. Columns correspond to the fields in the T&S database: A=‘ID no.’, B=‘Inventory no.’, C=‘Object reference’, D=‘Site’, E=‘Arachne link or bibliographic reference’, F=‘Type of impressed tool’, G=‘Form’, I=‘Context dating’, Q=‘Number of impressions’ and R=‘Other markings’. Columns H and I–P describe functional characteristics of a tool: its use-wear, weight, dimensions and preservation percentage. When the search is not predefined, the exported Excel file will contain all records from this module of the T&S database.
Main data fields in the module Seal-impressed textile tools
| Data fields identifying the tool | Data fields identifying the impressed seal(s) or markings | Data fields identifying functionality of the tool |
| Object reference | [CMS no.] in the object reference | Form of tool |
| Inv. no. | Type of seal | Preservation in % |
| Museum | Type of marking | Use-wear |
| Site | Photo of the mark(s) | Weight (g) |
| Arachne link or bibliographic reference | Photo of the impressed seal face(s) | Reconstructed weight (g) |
| Context | Maximum diameter (mm) | |
| Context dating | Maximum height (mm) | |
| Type of tool | Maximum thickness (mm) | |
| Type of fabric | Maximum width (mm) | |
| Photo of the textile tool | Maximum diameter of perforation(s) | |
| Remarks for context and dating | Remarks |
Authors: A. Ulanowska and K. Żebrowska
