If you want to tag the dates that appear in your edition, both in the <teiHeader>
data and in your commentary, use <date>
.
<date notAfter="0092" notBefore="0091">91–92 d.C.</date>
There are several ways to indicate a date, with different sets of attributes, even combining them together, as in the examples above:
@from
and@to
: for definite start and end dates, if we want to indicate a period.@notBefore
and@notAfter
: for dates with terminus ante quem and post quembut which are not definite. They can be used in combination to indicate a period, or individually to indicate a specific date.@when
: to indicate a single date on which an event takes place, when this is certain.
These attributes have a fixed format: "aaaa-mm-dd"
. That is: y: year, 4 digits; m: month, 2 digits; and d: day, two digits; separated by a hyphen (-). If only the year is known, only the 4 digits of the year are used. If the year has less than four digits, it is filled on the left with zeros, and a minus sign (hyphen: -) for years before Christ.
The text describing these specific data is free. For example, you can enter "c. II-I BC". This, in the attributes of <date>
, should be specified with notBefore="-0200", notAfter="-0001"
.