Ulysses: a first reading · Dimension 14 · Method

The Atlas of One Day

Dimension 14 · Type VI, a made object · eighteen panels, one per episode

Eighteen panels, one for each section of 16 June 1904, each carrying three slots in one fixed order — a thing of the kind the book names, a place, a period document — whether or not a picture has been found for them. The first slot holds a KIND, not a relic: the book's objects are mostly Joyce's inventions, and what a photograph can show is another letter, another advertisement, another sovereign. This atlas is a museum of the day's kinds, and says so rather than letting a slot's position claim otherwise. Nothing on a panel explains a panel. That is the form — meaning made by arrangement rather than by argument — and it is also the licence: attribution for these images lives in the colophon below, which is lawful only while no panel carries any credit at all. A single caption would breach every share-alike licence on this page at once.

Where a slot is empty it is shown empty — a drawn keyline at exactly the footprint a picture would occupy, never closed up and never textured. The grid does not tidy itself. Every absence has a reason and every reason is in the colophon.

State 1 · as of 4 August 2026 · Of 54 slots, 43 hold an image and 11 are empty — 17 of 18 objects, 10 of 18 places, 16 of 18 documents. 10 of 18 panels hold all three layers; 5 hold two, 3 hold one. This is not a promise about the rest.

The episode numbers and names beside each panel are scaffolding: Joyce printed no episode titles, and these are the project's own labels for the day's eighteen sections (anchor A2). They say which episode a panel belongs to. They do not say what it means.

1Telemachus

a hand-forged iron door key, dark, lying on a plain pale ground, its bow and wards in profile
coursed granite ashlar rising to a projecting string course and a parapet, sky behind, no other structure in the frame
The six-inch sheet's rocky Sandycove shore, Martello Tower printed beside the Bathing Place

2Nestor

a page of typewritten official correspondence, headed and signed, on aged paper
Dalkey's ground with the townland's own spread letters across it, Mount Salus Road and Nerano Road named, the station and the tunnel beside them

3Proteus

a pair of worn leather ankle boots, laces slack, cracked at the toe
a wide expanse of wet ribbed sand under an overcast sky, shallow water lying in the ridges, a low industrial skyline on the far horizon
An unbroken field of the sand stipple with Beach Road printed at its landward edge

4Calypso

a printed advertising handbill in a foreign alphabet, ruled border, dense small type
a wide view straight down a roadway, plain terraced houses on both sides, shopfronts at street level, parked cars along the kerb
The street grid at Dorset Street, the letters spread along the street's own axis, Granby Row and Dominick Street beside it

5Lotus Eaters

the folded front page of a broadsheet newspaper, masthead across the top, columns beneath
a columned church portico on the right, a long brick terrace running away to the left, an iron railway bridge and a curved station roof beyond
Westland Row printed full-length between the station and the church

6Hades

a long pale gabardine raincoat, buttoned, belted at the waist, hanging full length
ranks of Victorian headstones and Celtic crosses across mown grass, a standing draped figure among them, a dark treeline behind
Prospect Cemetery's grounds with The O'Connell Circle and the Tower printed inside them

7Aeolus

a small rectangular newspaper cutting, a ruled advertisement with a device at its centre
Prince's Street printed behind the General Post Office block, Lower Sackville Street beside it

8Lestrygonians

a single printed handbill, a short line of heavy display type across a pale sheet
a rank of parked bicycles along a kerb in the foreground, a shopfront terrace running back on the left, figures on the pavement, traffic receding into haze
Grafton Street's axis with Duke Street crossing it, the Mansion House a block east

9Scylla and Charybdis

a soft wide-brimmed felt hat, crown creased, brim curling
a tall iron forecourt gate with gilt lettering worked into it, a columned stone portico standing behind
Kildare Street printed along the street with the Science and Art Institutions block beside it

10Wandering Rocks

a shallow wicker basket packed with fruit, straw padding, a bottle laid among it

11Sirens

a slender wooden walking cane, tapering, with a worn handle and a metal ferrule
a river quay seen wide from across the water, a continuous terrace of tall houses along the waterfront, a green dome downstream
Upper Ormond Quay printed along the north bank, Chancery Street and Mary's Abbey behind it

12Cyclops

a printed tin biscuit box, lithographed panels on its sides, lid seated
Little Britain Street printed beside the courthouse block and Green Street

13Nausicaa

a small rectangular cake of pale soap, edges rounded from use, maker's name pressed into the face
a broad tidal flat running out to still water, two tall banded chimneys standing on the far shore, low cloud above
The same unbroken stipple field the strand shares between two episodes, Beach Road at its edge

14Oxen of the Sun

coins and folded banknotes of the period laid on a flat ground
Holles Street printed full-length with Denzille Street crossing and Merrion Square at its foot

15Circe

a stout ash walking stick, bark-flecked, one end cut square
Mabbot Street printed at the Talbot Street corner, Foley Street beside it

16Eumaeus

the printed paper cover of a cheap novel, title in display type, a figure illustrated below
a wide reach of river between stone quay walls, a low road bridge crossing in the foreground, a girder railway viaduct behind it
The river with Butt Br. (Swivel) printed on it, the loop-line viaduct beside it and the Custom House east

17Ithaca

a printed title page, a line of spaced capitals at the head, dense letterpress beneath it, an inked oval ownership stamp and a handwritten numeral at the foot

18Penelope

a glazed earthenware chamber pot, single loop handle, a band of colour at the rim

Colophon — every image, and where it came from

This is the attribution surface for all eighteen panels. CC BY 4.0 §3(a)(2) permits it to sit here rather than beside each image; CC BY-SA 2.0 permits it only while the panels stay bare. The panels themselves are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. No photograph on this page is cropped: every photograph is shown whole and padded to the slot, because cropping a share-alike photograph to fit a grid is an adaptation and this atlas stays clear of that boundary. Every map frame is a region of a named sheet — selected, not cropped, under the author's map-region ruling of 27 July 2026 — and is disclosed below, sheet by sheet. Corrected 4 August 2026: this paragraph read “No image on this page is cropped” — a claim about the photographs written as a claim about the page. A map frame is a region of a named sheet, ruled a selection of the document rather than a crop to fit the grid (RIGHTS.md clause 7, 27 July 2026), and the sentence as written would have read as false the day the first map frame arrived.

EpLayerWhatLicence and source
1 object The Martello tower key Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), dual-tagged with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) — source
1 place Martello_Tower,_Sandycove.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) — source
1 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 23 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
2 object Mr Deasy's foot-and-mouth letter PD-USGov (with NARA-cooperation; Commons categories "PD US Government" and "CC-PD-Mark") — source
2 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the locale the book puts Mr Deasy's school in — a region of County Dublin Sheet 23. THE SCHOOL IS JOYCE'S INVENTION and cannot be on any map; the LOCALE is the subject, admitted disclosed under the author's ruling of 2026-08-05 on document-for-an-invented-place CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
3 object Stephen's boots (Mulligan's castoffs) Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication — source
3 place South_Bull_at_Sandymount_looking_north.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), self-released by the photographer via {{self|cc-by-sa-4.0}} — source
3 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 19 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
4 object the Agendath Netaim flyer {{PD-Art|PD-1923}} — public domain; the work is American (Chapman and Co., St. Louis), so PD-US-expired IS its country-of-origin tag rather than a US-only clearance of a foreign work — source
4 place View south along Upper Dorset Street - geograph.org.uk - 1897946.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic (Eric Jones, 28 May 2010, via Geograph). Licence sits in Structured Data on Commons, not in the wikitext. — source
4 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
5 object the Freeman's Journal (Bloom's copy) {{PD-anon-70-EU}} + {{PD-1923}} (rendered as: "This work is in the public domain in the European Union and the United States because it is an anonymous work whose copyright has expired" / "published before January 1, 1931") — source
5 place Dublin StAndrews WestlandRow 45 IMG 20250804 1027.jpg CC0 (public-domain dedication) — source
5 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
6 object the brown macintosh {{PD-anon-1923}} (resolves to PD-anon-expired): "This work was published before January 1, 1931 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or fewer since publication." — source
6 place Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin - geograph.org.uk - 5947111.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic — Gareth James (geograph profile 32787), photographed 14 October 2018 — source
6 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
7 object the Keyes ad cutting {{PD-UK-unknown}} — rendered on the file page as "Public domain / This UK artistic or literary work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it ... was made available to the public ... more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1956)." — source
7 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
8 object The Elijah throwaway {{cc-by-2.0}} — "This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license." Flickr-reviewed: FlickreviewR passed 2024-01-05, confirming cc-by-2.0 at source. — source
8 place Fietsen staan tegen de stoeprand geparkeerd in een straat in Dublin, Bestanddeelnr 191-0869.jpg CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication — source
8 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
9 object Stephen's Latin Quarter hat Public Domain Mark 1.0 + PD-old-80 ("The author died in 1932, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer") + PD-US-expired ("This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931") + PD-Art (PD-old-auto-expired) — source
9 place Kildare Street — the National Museum and National Library Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), self-published, dual-licensed at the reuser's election with GFDL — source
9 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
10 object Boylan's fruit basket (port and peaches) Public domain — PD-old-100 (country of origin France; Manet d. 1883) plus Public Domain Mark 1.0 — source
11 object The blind stripling's tapping cane CC-BY-4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International), attribution: Auckland Museum — source
11 place the Ormond Hotel, Upper Ormond Quay Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) — source
11 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
12 object the Jacobs' biscuit tin {{PD-old-70-1923}} — renders on the file page as: "This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer" PLUS "This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1931." — source
12 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
13 object the lemon soap PD-old-70-1923 — source
13 place Sandymount_Strand_with_Poolbeg_Chimneys.jpg Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), self-released by the photographer via {{self|cc-by-sa-4.0}} — source
13 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 19 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
14 object Stephen's wages (three pounds twelve) CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ({{Cc-zero}} on the file page; API LicenseShortName "CC0", UsageTerms "Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication") — source
14 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
15 object Stephen's ashplant PD-old-100 + Public Domain Mark 1.0 + PD-US-expired — source
15 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
16 object Sweets of Sin {{PD-old-100-expired}} — rendering as: "This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer." + "This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1931." + Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 — source
16 place the cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), released by the photographer under {{self}} — source
16 document the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet's own drawing of the place — a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 CC BY 4.0 — the sheet's per-image tag, read by hand — source
17 document Dr G. S. Buchanan's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of illness at Mansfield caused by eating potted meat (London: printed for H.M.S.O. by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896; 12 pages, 33 cm; report dated May 1896) Public domain — {{PD-old-100-expired}} as tagged on Commons — source
18 object the orangekeyed chamberpot Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) — source

Map frames — regions of named sheets

A six-inch sheet covers about eight kilometres and a slot renders at about a hundred pixels, so the whole sheet was never the document a slot names. Every map frame on this page is a region of a named Ordnance Survey sheet — positioned by the sheet's own lettering naming the place, never trimmed to make a composition — under the author's map-region ruling of 27 July 2026 (RIGHTS.md clause 7). CC BY 4.0 §3(a)(1)(B) requires that modification to be indicated, and a caption-free panel cannot indicate anything, so this table is the indication.

EpLayerThe frameLicence
1 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 23 (NLS image 247667895, region 11000,6100,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS)
2 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 23 (NLS image 247667895, region 12380,8760,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS)
3 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 19 (NLS image 247667880, region 1150,8060,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS)
4 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 9930,4640,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
5 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 11590,6340,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
6 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 8520,1400,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
7 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 10460,5400,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
8 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 10500,6750,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
9 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 11100,6900,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
11 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 9490,5820,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
12 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 9350,5350,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
13 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 19 (NLS image 247667880, region 1150,8060,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS)
14 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 12000,6800,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
15 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 11380,4950,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).
16 document a region of County Dublin Sheet 18 (NLS image 247667874, region 11050,5482,600,450) Re-use: CC-BY (NLS).

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

What is missing, and why

An empty slot on this page is a fact about the record, not a gap in the work.

EpLayerWhy it is empty
2 place refused by rule 4(i) — REFUSED 27 JULY 2026 AT RULE 4(i), IDENTIFICATION, AND THE SLOT CANNOT BE FILLED BY SEARCHING HARDER. Mr Deasy's school is Joyce's invention. The 25 July survey proved by text search and an 800-metre geosearch that nothing depicting it exists on Commons in any form, so no held record can establish that any frame shows the thing this slot names — which is the first test, and it disposes. The three cleared candidates confirm it from the other side: an 1830 engraving seventy-four years early and before the railway made Dalkey a villa suburb; a photochrom dominated by Killiney Hill in which Dalkey village is not identifiable; and a 2011 street with a taxi, road markings and a DALKEY sign, which rule 3 refuses besides. The slot stays empty, and it is the honest kind of empty: not unfinished sourcing, but a place that does not exist to be photographed.
7 place refused by rule 4(ii) — REFUSED 27 JULY 2026 BY RULE 4(ii), STRUCTURAL SURVIVAL — demolition, bombardment or fire fails absolutely, and this is bombardment. The single cleared frame is Prince's Street in MAY 1916 — the Freeman's Journal after the bombardment, twelve years after Bloomsday and after the building's destruction. Nothing on Commons shows the premises working. In a caption-free atlas the panel cannot say it is twelve years late, and the reader would take a ruin for the newspaper house Bloom walks into. That is not a rule application and it is not a chair's taste: build panel session 07 settled it 8-1, and the rule it produced disposes of this frame at the second test without reaching the third. Nelson dissented alone, on the ground that the anachronism is in the pixels rather than in a sentence, which is what a caption-free atlas needs; the dissent is kept in docs/panel-session-07.md. The slot stays empty with its token.
10 place The place layer is empty on this panel and the panel says so. Base document 03 documents no place in this episode's hours. Its tracks name places, but a track is where a person is going or is sighted rather than where the episode sits, and at least one is marked [assumed] by the constraint model itself — so a track here would publish the model's assumption as the record's place (learning L-26).
10 document the document follows the place, and this episode's place layer is DECIDED, not unsettled: the author ruled it EMPTY on 2026-07-26 (data/atlas-place-choices.json, a ruling of absence): "The place layer is empty on this panel and the panel says so. Base document 03 documents no place in this episode's hours. Its tracks name places, but a track is where a person is going or is sighted rather than where the episode sits, and at least one is marked [assumed] by the constraint model itself — so a track here would publish the model's assumption as the record's place (learning L-26)." An empty place layer leaves the document layer empty with it — ruled, not waiting.
12 place refused by the author's ratified image rules — REFUSED by the text ruling, and no candidate survives it. The survey's first choice is a photograph of the bilingual street nameplate — a street sign photographed as a street sign, which is a caption by another route and is exactly what the ruling refuses. The only other cleared candidate is Green Street courthouse, on a different street, which the survey itself says would read as an old Dublin institutional facade and stop there. So episode 12's place slot is OPEN, and it is open for a reason the record can state: Barney Kiernan's is gone, Commons holds no image of it, and the street that remains cannot be shown without a sign.
14 place Nothing to choose. The survey cleared no admissible photograph of Holles Street hospital at all — three candidates cleared their licences and an independent refuter broke all three. The subject the author picked stands; the slot stays empty and the panel shows it empty.
15 place refused by the author's ratified image rules — REFUSED by the vanished-place ruling's second clause. Both cleared candidates show the Corporation flats that REPLACED Nighttown after the 1925 closure — the ruling says show nothing rather than show that. The survey had reached the same place without the rule: it said in terms that it was not entirely comfortable recommending either. Episode 15's place slot is OPEN, and the reason is the strongest kind: the thing the panel would depict is the erasure of the thing the panel is for.
17 object No image of this object class could be cleared to the project's standard, and on 26 July 2026 the author ruled that this slot stays EMPTY rather than being filled by something that is not an object. Episode 17 therefore carries fewer layers than three, and the colophon records the absence. Corrected 27 July 2026 (build panel session 07): this field said "a two-layer panel — place and document", and episode 17s PLACE slot is not acquired either, so the panel carries one layer today. How many layers a panel has is a fact about what has been acquired, and asserting it here is a count that goes stale between one acquisition and the next (L-22) — the coverage is derived onto the page itself instead. The panel carries no substitute object.
17 place refused by RIGHTS.md clause 7 — 7 Eccles Street was demolished in 1967. In a caption-free atlas a photograph of the surviving terrace would read as Bloom's door and be the wrong house, and there is no caption to say so. RIGHTS.md clause 7 rules this slot to a document instead. The slot carries instead: the Thom's Official Directory of Ireland 1904 entry for 7 Eccles Street.
18 place The place layer is empty on this panel and the panel says so. Nothing in the held record places this episode: base document 03 documents no place in its hours and it has no tracks either. Empty shown as empty.
18 document the document follows the place, and this episode's place layer is DECIDED, not unsettled: the author ruled it EMPTY on 2026-07-26 (data/atlas-place-choices.json, a ruling of absence): "The place layer is empty on this panel and the panel says so. Nothing in the held record places this episode: base document 03 documents no place in its hours and it has no tracks either. Empty shown as empty." An empty place layer leaves the document layer empty with it — ruled, not waiting.

Institutional marks on the scans

A caption-free panel cannot tell a reader that the stamp is a modern library's and not part of the 1896 printing. That is the limitation, it is real, and 'mention them where needed' is what is done about it: every admitted mark is recorded against its image and must appear in the Atlas's colophon, which is the only surface the form leaves available. The ruling, 2026-07-26, in the author's own words: “We have to accept limitations and mention them where needed and continue.”

Institutional marks are admitted and disclosed — still gated regardless of the licence: the institutional-marks question was RULED on 2026-07-26, in the author's own words: “We have to accept limitations and mention them where needed and continue.” — an ownership mark on a scan of a period document is admitted and disclosed where it bites; a photographer's watermark remains an authorship credit and stays refused (C-76, L-34).

EpLayerThe mark
17documentPage 1 carries an inked WELLCOME LIBRARY / General Collections ownership stamp in the lower right, with a handwritten accession number beside it. Page 2 carries a printed Wellcome barcode, 22502708362, in the lower left. Both are modern marks on the physical artefact and neither is part of the 1896 printing.

Caveats

Ulysses: a first reading · Dimension 14 · Method