Coronis (textual symbol)

For the diacritic used to mark synalepha between two words, see Coronis (diacritic).
The final lines of Hypereides' In Philippidem with a coronis (in concert with a forked paragraphos) marking the end of the speech (P.Lit.Lond. 134 col. ix, 2nd century BCE).

A coronis (Ancient Greek: κορωνίς, korōnís, pl. κορωνίδες, korōnídes) is a textual symbol found in ancient Greek papyri that was used to mark the end of an entire work or of a major section in poetic and prose texts.[1] The coronis was generally placed in the left-hand margin of the text and was often accompanied by a paragraphos or a forked paragraphos (diple obelismene).

The coronis is encoded by Unicode as part of the Supplemental Punctuation block, at U+2E0E ⸎ EDITORIAL CORONIS.

  1. ^ Schironi 2010: 10.