STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT

Direction of text (right to left)

Direction of text (left to right)

αβγδ To mark a point in the text at which the support changes: a block ends and another begins (no linebreak)

αβγδ To mark a point in the text at which the support changes: a fragment ends and another begins (no linebreak)

Paragraphos

To mark the different sides on which the same inscription is cut

TRANSCRIPTION

αβ Clear text

αβγ Clear but incomprehensible letters

αβ Ambiguous characters outside their context

α δ λ Ambiguous characters with alternatives offered

αβ Erased but legible text

αβ Erased and illegible text, but restored

Erased and lost characters: quantity known

Erased and lost characters

Erased and lost characters, quantity unknown

Erased and lost line(s)

αβ (not following a ) Text struck over erasure/ancient correction

αβ γδ Ancient correction, both new and old text read

αβ Text addition by ancient hand

Vestiges of letters visible but illegible: quantity known

Illegible characters: quantity unknown

Illegible characters: quantity approximate

Illegible characters: range of possible extent

Illegible lines: quantity known

Illegible lines: quantity unknown

Illegible lines: quantity approximate

Possibly illegible line

Possibly illegible lines

Lost characters: quantity known

Lost characters: quantity unknown

Lost characters: quantity approximate

Lost characters: range of possible extent

Characters possibly lost

Characters possibly lost, number unknown

Lost characters: metre reconstructed

Lost lines: quantity known

Lost lines: quantity unknown

Lost lines: quantity approximate

Possibly lost line

Possibly lost lines

Vacat (unit character, horizontal space left on stone)

Vacat (unit character, quantity approximate, horizontal space left on stone)

Vacat (unit line, vertical space left on stone)

Vacat, extent unknown (unit character)

Vacat, extent unknown (unit line)

Vacat possibly left on stone (unit character)

Vacat possibly left on stone (unit line)

Change in scribe or hand

Text not completed by stonecutter (omission not restored)

FORM AND APPEARANCE

αβγ Raised letters

ϙ Inverted letters

ρ Rotated letters

αβ Ligatured letters

EDITORIAL INTERVENTIONS

αβ Characters lost but restored

αβ Characters restored tentatively

ἑταῖρ Word incompletely restored

αβ Text visible to previous editors but now lost

αβ Text restored by comparison with parallel copy

αβ Superfluous letters; suppressed by editor

αβ Omitted letters; added by editor

αβ βα Erroneous letters; corrected by editor

ἐκ ἐγ Word regularized by editor

αβγ Abbreviation fully expanded

αβγ Abbreviation uncertainly expanded

αβγ Abbreviation partially expanded

α Abbreviation, expansion unknown

𐅹 ἔτους Expansion of symbol

abc Subaudible word supplied by editor

abc Breviatio explained by editor

abc Editor's note

INTERPRETATION

ρμα inside Alphabetic numbers

politeuma Transliterated Greek

pace Latin

one or more reasons for dating

For div type TRANSLATION, add to the previous:

Lost characters: significant spans of lacuna in the original text

abc Restored text (most often entire words or phrases, since the translation will seldom align with the original text more finely than this)

abc Subaudible text supplied by editor or editor’s note

abc Abbreviation uncertainly expanded