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Memorial for the Dead

The meaning of commemorating a specific dead person. Attested as an ATTRIBUTE-DEPENDENT reading: the cited museum assigns it to a swallow shown with a dagger, not to a swallow alone.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

1 attested1 source · T1

Registry entry only

The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

Provenance

1 resolved

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    Tier 1

    The Historic Dockyard Chatham

    Maritime heritage museum article on naval tattoo designs. Verbatim: records show designs that are "marks of love, loss and life events" while others demonstrate "national identities, religious faith, and patriotic pride"; "Each swallow represents 5,000 nautical miles in a sailor's career." One of the few tier 1 sources that speaks about tattoo subject matter as lived human experience rather than as art history.

    museum · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

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Can symbolize · 1

  • ← incomingDaggerMotifAttested
    strength 0.25researched

    ATTRIBUTE-SCOPED, and the meaning is carried by the COMBINATION, not by the dagger: the Tier 1 museum says “A swallow with a dagger would be used as a memorial of a lost comrade at sea.” Strength 0.25 records that a dagger on its own is not covered by this evidence. The same relation is already on motif_swallow from T11.8a; it is repeated here from the dagger's side because either element can be the entry point to the combination.