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unprovenienced

unprovenienced adjective: not having provenience: not having complete and fully ascertained information about origin, not even knowledge of the site in which an artifact was first found by archaeology (let alone any other aspect of its history).

Adjective

unprovenienced (not comparable)

  1. (especially) Not having provenience: not having complete and fully ascertained information about origin, not even knowledge of the site in which an artifact was first found by archaeology (let alone any other aspect of its history).
    • Near-synonym: unprovenanced
    • There are many problems associated with artifacts and objects that lack a secure archaeological context. As Biblical Archaeology Review readers know, we typically describe such objects as “unprovenanced” (or, more accurately, unprovenienced). Since they were not found through controlled scientific...2021 November 19, Glenn J. Corbett, “The Problem with Unprovenanced Objects”, in Bible History Daily, Biblical Archaeology Society
    Synonyms:
    unprovenanced

Examples of unprovenienced in a sentence

  • As Biblical Archaeology Review readers know, we typically describe such objects as “unprovenanced” (or, more accurately, unprovenienced).2021 November 19, Glenn J. Corbett, “The Problem with Unprovenanced Objects”, in Bible History Daily, Biblical Archaeology Society:
  • “Unprovenienced” is to be differentiated from “unprovenanced,” which refers to artifacts whose ownership history is unknown.2024 April 3, Christopher J. Foster, Glenda Chao, and Mercedes Valmisa, “The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts...

Synonyms of unprovenienced

Origin of unprovenienced

From un- + provenience + -ed.

Questions about unprovenienced

What does unprovenienced mean?
Unprovenienced means not having provenience: not having complete and fully ascertained information about origin, not even knowledge of the site in which an artifact was first found by archaeology (let alone any other aspect of its history).
How do you use unprovenienced in a sentence?
As Biblical Archaeology Review readers know, we typically describe such objects as “unprovenanced” (or, more accurately, unprovenienced).
What part of speech is unprovenienced?
Unprovenienced is an adjective.

Words near unprovenienced in the dictionary

  1. unproveable
  2. unproved
  3. unprovedness
  4. unproven
  5. unprovenanced
  6. unprovenienced
  7. unprovenly
  8. unprovenness
  9. unproverbial
  10. unproves
  11. unprovidable

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