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Completeness
Information about the completeness of Geographic Names in Pleiades.
Pleiades documents the completeness of attested geographic names, recognizing three different classifications:
- complete
- a string of characters in an ancient (primary) source is thought to give the complete name in an unproblematic fashion
- fragmentary, but reconstructable
- a string of characters in an ancient source is damaged or missing such that the complete name cannot be read, but the missing character(s) can be restored with confidence
- fragmentary and not reconstructable
- a string of characters in an ancient source is damaged or missing such that the complete name cannot be read and it is impossible to restore the missing character(s) with confidence
Treatment in the Barrington Atlas
The Barrington Atlas gave no special indication for complete names. Fragmentary, but reconstructable names were presented, in reconstructed form, with an asterisk prefixed. The fragmentary version from the original source was not indicated (e.g., *Eleinokapria). Fragmentary and not reconstructable names were presented with all extant characters and ellipses, enclosed by parentheses, standing in any gaps (e.g., (...)lense, Aquae (...) and C(…)o).