Transcription of characters and sigla on the stone

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Release or development version: r-5

Subsections

• Transcription with no problems
• Transcription with no uncertainty about the form of the character(s), but the editor prefers not to resolve them.
• Transcription wherein the character would not be unambiguous outside its context
• Transcription wherein vestiges of characters remain, but they cannot be recognized (extent certain or nearly so)
• Transcription where letters are completely lost
  • Letters completely lost (extent certain or not certain)
  • Letters completely lost (extent less certain due to variation in the size of surviving characters)
  • An entire line completely lost (extent certain or uncertain)
  • Possibility that letters have been completely lost
• Letters read by a previous modern observer, but which cannot now be read
• Transcription where a vacat is evident or suspected