diff --git a/fixtures/3/annoPageMultipleMotivations.json b/fixtures/3/annoPageMultipleMotivations.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..caf6c34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixtures/3/annoPageMultipleMotivations.json
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{
+  "@context": "http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json",
+  "id": "https://preview.iiif.io/cookbook/0068-newspaper/recipe/0068-newspaper/newspaper_issue_1-anno_p1.json",
+  "type": "AnnotationPage",
+  "items": [
+    {
+      "id": "https://data.europeana.eu/annotation/9200355/BibliographicResource_3000096302513/20b3b1f4cb15f062e53fd50d584d66ff",
+      "type": "Annotation",
+      "motivation": ["supplementing", "commenting"],
+      "body": {
+        "type": "TextualBody",
+        "format": "text/plain",
+        "language": "de",
+        "value": "84"
+      },
+      "target": "https://iiif.europeana.eu/presentation/9200355/BibliographicResource_3000096302513/canvas/p1#xywh=182,476,59,43"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/schema/iiif_3_0.json b/schema/iiif_3_0.json
index 73e4354..02654e3 100644
--- a/schema/iiif_3_0.json
+++ b/schema/iiif_3_0.json
@@ -686,7 +686,15 @@
                             "pattern": "^Annotation$"
                         },
                         "motivation": {
-                            "type": "string"
+                            "oneOf": [
+                                { "type": "string" },
+                                {
+                                    "type": "array",
+                                    "items": {
+                                        "type": "string"
+                                    }
+                                }
+                            ]    
                         },
                         "body": {
                             "oneOf": [
diff --git a/tests/test_validator.py b/tests/test_validator.py
index eda20a9..1896018 100644
--- a/tests/test_validator.py
+++ b/tests/test_validator.py
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ def test07_check_manifest3(self):
                      'fixtures/3/collection_of_collections.json',
                      'fixtures/3/version2image.json',
                      'fixtures/3/annoPage.json',
-                     'fixtures/3/anno_pointselector.json'
+                     'fixtures/3/anno_pointselector.json',
+                     'fixtures/3/annoPageMultipleMotivations.json'
                      ]:
             with open(good, 'r') as fh:
                 data = fh.read()