What is the text about? Provide a brief summary of its contents. Who was intended to read it(public, private, the gods etc.)?What is the text’ spurpose?What was the author’s message or argument? What were they trying to convey? Is the message explicit? Are there implicit messages as well?What can a careful reading of the texttell you?How does the author try to convey their message?What methods do they use?Think also about the choice of words, language, use of metaphor. What about the silences–what does the author choose NOT to talk about?Can you assign this to a specific genre? How is your analysis influenced by the translation of the text?What (if anything) do you know about the author?Perhaps their ethnicity,identity, class,sex, age,occupation,or religion? Is this important for reading and analysing the text and why?How credible is the author?b) Object/Image/Site/Monument: What do you see? Describe in your own words (size, shape, material, colour, adornment, spatial configuration etc.).In some places you might be dependent on a secondary source (museum catalogue, excavation report), for example for precise measurements.Explanation: what is the meaning or significance of the objects,symbols, etc.?How much are you dependent on inference, analogy, or previous scholarship to identify the meaning of things?Think about the approaches to iconography and materiality covered in the module