Diacritics
The diacritics are taken from the relevant edition of the texts and therefore are not coherent in every case. They all follow the Leiden Conventions.
Sign | Explanation |
[αβ] | Letters restored by the editor |
[—] | Missing letters of unknown number, not restorable |
{α} | Letters considered superfluous by the editor |
<α> | Letters omitted erroneously by the text and restored by the editor |
(αβ) | Abbreviation in the text, expanded by the editor |
[[αβ]] | Letters or spaces deliberately erased in antiquity |
[[—]] | Unknown number of letters erased |
α̣ | Letters of which sufficient traces remain on the stone but not enough to exclude other possible readings |
αβ | Letters seen by an earlier editor but no longer visible on the stone |
α͜β | Ligature |
(v.) / v. |
Latinvacat; one, two or three uninscribed letter-space(s) |
(vac.) vac. vacat |
Latinvacat; uninscribed space |
(sic) | Indicates grammatical or orthographical particularities |