References

On this page we provide a description of the Epigraphic conventions used in the editions of the texts.

Abbreviations

I

• IGBulg: Mihailov, G., Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae

Conventions

Telamon Project conventions are as follows:

• [ ] Square brackets enclose parts of the text once written on the stone but now either totally illegible (where the surface is worn), or lost because the stone is broken away.
• () Round brackets enclose letters added by the editor to complete an abbreviated word.
• <> Angled brackets enclose:
       1) letters believed to have been accidentally omitted by the engraver;
       2) correct letters inserted by the editor to substitute letters wrongly inscribed or left incomplete on the stone.
• {} Hooked brackets enclose letters considered not to have been intended to be written, but written by error, e.g. mistakenly repeated letters.
• Pale colour indicates partially preserved letters with doubtful reading.
• Dotted underlining indicates letters deliberately erased in ancient times.
  
• v or vacat indicates space intentionally left blank by the engraver.
• Underlining indicates letters read by earlier editors or seen in earlier copies/photographs, but now missing on the stone.

Measurements are all in metres; the measurements of the stones have been given in the order height × width × depth.