Illegible Characters, Quantity Known

2024-03-20

Where vestiges of characters remain, but they cannot be recognised and their quantity is known, they should be placed in a gap and given a reason with a value of "illegible".

Panciera 1991 VIII.2; Sosin 2011: [...]

<gap reason="illegible" quantity="3"
 unit="character"/>
(Panciera)
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1"
 unit="character"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: ·
(IRT: 690)
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="2"
 unit="character"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Duke Databank style:   ̣  ̣
(DDbDP: bgu.1.101)

See also:

Other pages describing <gap>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Scott Vanderbilt, author
  2. Charlotte Tupman, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20