History from Square Brackets — how much of the Latin epigraphic record is editorial conjecture · 著录方括号里的历史
Each inscription binned by the share of its legible letters that editors supplied. The long tail on the right — texts that are mostly or entirely conjecture — is where reading the corpus as evidence is riskiest.
Restored ÷ (preserved + restored) letters, all inscriptions with text per province (≥200 records). Frontier and sparsely-attested provinces carry the most editorial supplement; well-studied cores the least. Provincia incerta is the unknown-provenance bucket, not a province.
The top of the leaderboard — each linked out to EDCS, where you can inspect the editor's brackets. An excerpt shows the Leiden markup as encoded.
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