Shading (a complete destruction of a hieroglyph)
A complete destruction of the hieroglyphs (when the sign cannot be recognized anymore) is not to be reconstructed in square brackets (as in the transliteration). Instead, shading is applied to indicate that the destroyed sign cannot be read. The size of the destruction is not important, the shading will always be same size (see screen-shot below). You can enter it by using "//".
Partial Destruction
When a sign is only partially destroyed (part of it still visible and identifiable), it is rendered by half-square brackets. The half-square brackets are entered with [?-Hieroglyph-?] (see screenshot below). Please enter each partially destroyed sign separately (i.e. for each sign the brackets have to be entered separately; only one sign is allowed in one set of brackets).
Missing Hieroglyphs
If a sign or a word is missing altogether (not destroyed) by omission of the scribe in antiquity, it is not to be supplemented. Only what is present in the text is to be encoded. If there is an empty space between two signs left in antiquity it is to be encoded with '..', as in the example below:
NOTE: Mistakes made in antiquity are not to be reproduced as such in the encoding!
