Letters omitted (but not restored) because the stonecutter did not carry out the text to the end.
- TEI definition: gap ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: gap
Where text has been omitted and is not restored, a gap should be used, with a reason with a value of "omitted".
Panciera 1991 X.5; Sosin 2011: (---)
<gap reason="omitted" extent="unknown"
unit="character"/>(Panciera)
<gap reason="omitted" extent="unknown"
unit="line"/>(Panciera)
<gap reason="omitted" extent="unknown"
unit="character"/>Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
<gap reason="omitted" extent="unknown"
unit="character"/>Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
- Duke Databank style: < -ca.?- >
See also:
Other pages describing <gap>:
- Words Omitted by Editor for Brevity
- Erased and Lost
- Foreign Ellipsis
- Illegible Characters, Quantity Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Illegible Characters, Quantity Known
- Illegible Characters, Quantity Unknown
- Illegible Lines, Quantity Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Illegible Lines, Quantity Known
- Illegible Lines, Quantity Unknown
- Illegible text, other units (e.g. cm)
- Editorial restoration: Segmented or adjacent lacunae
- Lost characters, quantity approximate
- Lost characters, quantity known
- Lost Characters, Metre Known/Reconstructed
- Lost Characters, Numeral
- Lost characters, praenomen
- Lost characters, quantity unknown
- Lost Lines, Quantity Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Lost lines, quantity known
- Lost Lines, Quantity Unknown
- Lacunas, Other Units
- Possible Illegible Characters/Lines
- Lines Possibly Lost / Text Possibly Breaks
- Editorial restoration: Word incompletely restored
- Editorial restoration: example or illustrative supplement
Responsibility for this section
Scott Vanderbilt, author
Charlotte Tupman, author