Values (heritage)

The values embodied in cultural heritage[2] are identified in order to assess significance, prioritize resources, and inform conservative-restorative decision-making.

Alois Riegl is credited with developing Ruskin's concept of 'voicefulness' into a systematic categorization of the different values of a monument.

[3] The UNESCO World Heritage Convention addresses cultural sites of outstanding universal value, from a historical, aesthetic, scientific, ethnological or anthropological perspective, and highlights the need for authenticity.

Cultural significance is said to be 'embodied' in the fabric, setting, use, associations, and meanings of a place, and includes aesthetic, historic, scientific, social and spiritual values for past, present and future generations.

[5][6][7] Significance assessment typically includes consideration of the rarity, representativeness, and communicative power of assets and their values.

Changing values saw the demolition and burial of this monument in 1991; in 2010 it was announced that the head was to be excavated and placed in a museum for disgraced statues [ 1 ]