"unprovenienced" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From un- + provenience + -ed. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|provenience|-ed|id1=negative|id3=adjective}} un- + provenience + -ed Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unprovenienced (not comparable)
  1. (especially archaeology, of an artifact) 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). Tags: especially, not-comparable Categories (topical): Archaeology
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