The diacritical signs as enumerated in Panciera 1991, with links to EpiDoc guidance for encoding each semantic distinction expressed thereby in TEI XML.
A. Litterae in lapide exstantes
- I. Litterae ita laesae ut certius extra tituli contextum agnosci non possunt
- Ambiguous characters
- II. Litterae errore substitutae quas editor correxit
- Erroneous substitution
- III. Litterae errore adiectae quas editor expunxit
- Superfluous characters
- IV. Additamentum antiquum ad textum corrigendum aut supplendum
- Text added by ancient hand
- V. Litterae antiquitus erasae quae tamen legentur
- Erased but legible text
- VI. Litterae loco erasarum insculptae
- Text struck over erasure
- VII. Vestigia litterarum ita corruptarum ut nullo modo agnosci possint
- Illegible characters, quantity known and quantity unknown
- VIII. Litterae planae lectionis quae tamen in incerto est utrum ad initium verbi an ad medium an ad finem pertineant an ad verbum plus quam unum
- Uninterpreted characters
B. Litterae omissae vel deperditae
- I. Litterae errore omissae quas editor adiecit
- Supplement of omitted characters
- II. Litterae omissae quod lapicida inscriptionem ad finem non perduxit
- Text not completed (omission not restored)
- III. Litterae omissae compendii causa quas editor explevit
- Abbreviation fully expanded
- IV. Litterae quae a prioribus descriptae postea perierunt
- Text visible to previous editor
- V. Litterae fortuito superficiei damno vel fractura omnino deperditae quarum numerus sive computari potest sive non potest
- Lost characters, quantity known, quantity approximate and quantity unknown
- VI. Lacuna sive unius integri versus sive integrorum versuum quorum numerus incertus est
- Lost lines, quantity known and quantity unknown
- VII. Litterae omnino deperditae quas editor supplevit
- Restored text
- VIII. Litterae antiquitus omnino erasae quarum numerus sive computari potest sive non potest
- Erased and lost
C. Varia
- I. Litterae conexae
- Ligatures
- II. Litterae quae dicuntur Claudianae
- Claudian letters
- III. I longa
- Tall or small characters
- IV. Vocales apicibus notatae
- Apices
- V. Litterae et notae numerorum lineis notatae
- Supralinear line, etc.
- VI. Puncta hederae
- Symbols and Interpuncts
- VII. Verbum ab editore loco litterae inversae positum
- Reversed or inverted letters
- VIII. Verbum ab editore loco notae positum
- Symbols and Expansion of symbol to word
- IX. Verbum subauditum quod editor menifestum facit
- Editor makes subaudible word manifest
- X. Verbum ab loco anaglyphi positum
- Symbols
- XI. Nota editoris ut lector attento animo aliquid perpendat
- Editor's note
- XII. Nota editoris quae ponitur post aliquid de quo quaeritur
- e.g. Uncertainly restored text or Abbreviation uncertainly expanded
- XIII. Partes versus quae non inscriptae fuisse videntur
- vacat measured in characters (horizontal space)
- XIV. Verba praetermissa in textum laudando
- Words omitted by editor
- XV. Linearum diviso
- Lines and line breaks
- XVI. Versuum diviso
- Verse lines
- XVII. Paginarum diviso
- Columns, fragments, sections, pages and other breaks
Responsibility for this section
Gabriel Bodard, author