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Section sizes

Section size for Palaeography (44 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,409	3,409
Application	3,577	5,959
Document dating	2,382	2,382
Ancient Near East	343	343
Aramaic palaeography	6,906	6,906
Greek palaeography	4,014	27,793
Ptolemaic period	9,074	9,074
Roman period	4,002	4,002
Byzantine period	2,032	2,032
Vellum and paper manuscripts	489	6,865
Uncial hand	2,474	2,474
Minuscule hand	3,902	3,902
Accents, punctuation, and division of words	1,806	1,806
China	85	85
India	7,147	11,275
North India	2,076	2,076
South India	1,528	2,052
List of South Indian scripts	524	524
Latin	2,978	34,746
Overview	1,673	1,673
Majuscule writing	26	8,104
Capital writing	3,649	3,649
Early cursive writing	2,432	2,432
Uncial writing	1,997	1,997
List of Latin alphabets	175	175
Minuscule cursive writing	190	11,461
Early minuscule cursive	2,244	2,244
National hands	9,027	9,027
Set minuscule writing	205	10,355
Half-uncial writing	1,706	1,706
Irish and Anglo-Saxon writing	1,952	1,952
Pre-Caroline	2,335	2,335
Carolingian minuscule	3,720	3,720
Gothic minuscule	437	437
Rise of modern writing	1,554	7,968
Developments	6,414	6,414
See also	823	823
References	30	30
Further reading	23	2,931
Arabic palaeography	355	355
Western palaeography	1,166	1,166
Indian palaeography	912	912
Digital palaeography	475	475
External links	3,763	3,763
Total	106,031	106,031

why small caps? edit

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A history of Greek handwriting must be incomplete owing to the fragmentary nature of evidence. If one rules out the inscriptions on stone or metal, which belong to the science of epigraphy, we are practically dependent for the period preceding the 4th or 5th century AD on the papyri from Egypt (cf. papyrology)...

Why are epigraphy and papyrology in small caps? My instinct would be just to have them be wikilinks. Is there some specific Wikipedia style reason for this? --Jfruh (talk) 19:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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