Erased But Legible Text

2024-03-20

Characters erased in antiquity but still legible (more or less clearly) should be tagged using the del element, whose rend should have a value of "erasure". Where the characters cannot be understood or are unclear, orig and unclear elements should be used respectively.

Panciera 1991 V.1: [[abc]] or [[ABC]] or [[ạḅc̣]]

Sosin 2011: ⟦αβγ⟧

<del rend="erasure">abc</del>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: ⟦abc⟧
(Panciera)
<del rend="erasure">
 <orig>abc</orig>
</del>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: ⟦ABC⟧
(Panciera)
<del rend="erasure">
 <unclear>abc</unclear>
</del>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: ⟦ạḅc̣⟧
(Panciera)
<del rend="erasure">
 <orig>gn</orig>
</del>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: ⟦GN⟧
(IRT: 149)
<del rend="erasure">Νέρων<sic n="superfluous">ι</sic>
</del>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: ⟦Νέρωνι⟧
(InsAph: 9.14)
<del rend="erasure">
 <unclear>Ε</unclear>ὐπρεπ<unclear>εία</unclear>
</del>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Duke Databank style: ⟦Ε̣ὐπρεπε̣ί̣α̣⟧
(DDbDP: p.cair.masp.3.67340)

See also:

Other pages describing <del>:

Other pages describing <orig>:

Other pages describing <unclear>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Beatrice Lietz, author
  2. Charlotte Tupman, author
  3. Gabriel Bodard, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20