Appendix: All Transcription Guidelines
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Structure
Columns, fragments, sections, pages and other breaks
Lines and line breaks
Word divided across lines
Direction of text
Verse lines
Metrical fragment
Non-structural text parts
Paragraphos, horizontal rule, etc.
Transcription
Clear text
Uninterpreted characters (Leiden uppercase)
Ambiguous characters (Leiden underdot)
Ambiguous characters with alternatives offered
Damaged characters (but readable)
Erased but legible text
Erased and illegible but restored
Erased and lost
Marked for deletion by slashes etc.
Text struck over erasure
Ancient correction, both original and new text read
Ancient correction, original illegible or lost
Text added by ancient hand
Text added with sling etc.
Illegible characters, quantity known
Illegible characters, quantity unknown
Illegible characters, quantity approximate
Illegible lines, quantity known
Illegible lines, quantity unknown
Illegible lines, quantity approximate
Possible illegible lines
Illegible text, other units
Lost characters, quantity known
Lost characters, quantity unknown
Lost characters, quantity approximate
Lost characters, quantity extrapolated (e.g. praenomen or number)
Lost characters, metre reconstructed
Lost characters, numeral
Lost lines, quantity known
Lost lines, quantity unknown
Lost lines, quantity approximate
Lines possibly lost / text possibly breaks
Lacuna, other units
Vacat, measured in characters (horizontal space)
Vacat, measured in lines (vertical space)
Vacat, measured in other units
Possible vacat
Change in scribe or hand
Text not completed (omission not restored)
Form and appearance
Characters highlighted or set apart in some way
Apices and other ancient diacritics
Supralinear lines, etc.
Raised or lowered characters
Tall or small characters
Reversed or inverted letters
Claudian letters
Ligatures
Symbols
Symbols: Chi-rho
Symbols: monograms
Editorial interventions
Restored text
Uncertainly restored text
Incompletely restored text
Text visible to previous editor
Text restored from parallel copy
Superfluous characters
Supplement of omitted characters
Correction of erroneous characters
Regularization of dialect or late spellings, etc.
Correction (without specifying if omitted or erroneous)
Abbreviation fully expanded
Abbreviation uncertainly expanded
Abbreviation partially expanded
Abbreviation not expanded at all
Expansion of abbreviation including mark
Expansion of symbol to word
Words omitted by editor
Foreign text omitted from edition
Editor makes "subaudible" word manifest
Editor's explanation of breviatio
Editor's note
Interpretation
Numeral, value known
Numeral, value unknown
Fraction, value known
Fraction, value unknown
Numeral with tick
Numeral with range of possible values
Numeral with non-sequential possible values
Acrophonic and other numbers
Quotation marks
Text in a language other than that of the main text
Responsibility for this section
Gabriel Bodard
Charlotte Tupman
, Author
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