Deletion and overstruck addition of text in antiquity
leiden
for divset 1: encodingitemcount != editionitemcount
Traditional typographic representation
Panciera, pp.18-19; Dohnicht, p.4:
Letters, inscribed in place of earlier letters that have been erased, which are plainly or reasonably readable.
<<abc>> (the added text can be clearly read)<<ABC>> (the added text can be clearly read, but those characters do not make sense)<<ạḅc̣>> (the added characters are degraded in some way that would render their identity ambiguous if encountered outside their present context)Panciera, p.19:
Letters, inscribed in place of earlier letters that have been erased, which by virtue of damage to the surface or fracture, are wholly lost
<<[abc]>> (editor supplements lost added characters with full confidence; see: Editorial supplement for characters wholly lost)<<[ · · · ]>> (editor cannot supplement lost added characters, but is certain of the number of missing characters; see: Letters completely lost)<<[ · c.5 · ]>> (editor cannot supplement lost added characters, and is not fully certain of the number of missing characters, see: Letters completely lost)<<[ - - - ]>> (editor cannot supplement lost added characters, and cannot be certain of the number of missing characters due to wide variation in the size of characters elsewhere in the inscription; see: Letters completely lost (extent less certain))Not explicitly addressed elsewhere:
legio XIII <<g>>emina (text has been added over a deletion, the added text can be clearly read and the deleted text is utterly unrecoverable)legio XIII <<g>>emina (text has been added over a deletion, the added text can be clearly read and the deleted text can also be clearly read: a note would be added in the apparatus indicating that the original character was "f")
Regular Expression Test
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EpiDoc appearance with standard XSLT
abcABCabclegio XIII
geminalegio XIII
fgemina