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A line under the line.
Also known as: Paragraph stroke
The Greek scribal mark dividing a text into sections, written as a stroke beneath the start of the line.
Divides a Greek text into sections, marking where a new one begins.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Gave the paragraph its name, and the modern pilcrow descends from it — though the modern mark stands at the start of the text while the ancient one sat beneath it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Necessary because Greek literary papyri were written without word spacing, punctuation or indentation, so structure had to be added in the margin rather than in the layout.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A short horizontal stroke drawn beneath the beginning of the line at which a new section starts, in the left margin.