Illegible Characters, Quantity Unknown

2024-03-20

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

Panciera 1991 VIII.3; Sosin 2011: [- - -]

<gap reason="illegible" extent="unknown"
 unit="character"/>
(Panciera)
<gap reason="illegible" extent="unknown"
 unit="character"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: ·· ? ··
(IRT: 45)
<gap reason="illegible" extent="unknown"
 unit="character"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Duke Databank style: ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩
(DDbDP: bgu.10.1926)

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