Deletion and overstruck addition of text in antiquity
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")
EpiDoc encoding legio XIII apprdgdelgap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character"//del/rdgrdgadd place="overstrike"g/add/rdg/appemina legio XIII apprdgdelunclear reason="damage"f/unclear/del/rdgrdgadd place="overstrike"g/add/rdg/appemina
EpiDoc appearance with standard XSLT abc ABC abc legio XIII gemina legio XIII f gemina
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