# r2-edh-b1-02

**Claim (as registered):** No single province accounts for 30% or more of the full holdout total.

**Proposed mechanism:** The bounded counterpart of the concentration claim above: no single excavation or collection effort is proposed to dominate an entire half-alphabet partition on its own.

**Scope:** Source: the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH), a catalogue of Roman-period inscriptions on stone/metal/etc. (physical objects, catalogued separately from a manuscript census). Training: the 33 provinces in the alphabetically first half of EDH's own province-code order (42,009 inscriptions). Holdout: the 33 provinces in the alphabetically second half, minus 'Provincia incerta' (EDH's own catch-all for uncertain findspots, not a real geographic unit, excluded from all arithmetic) -- 32 real provinces, 39,457 inscriptions -- landed in one complete fetch after the claim was fixed. EDH's own content has been fixed since 2021 (the cataloguing project's funding ended), so this holdout tests whether a pattern generalizes across an arbitrary alphabetical split of already-catalogued, unchanging material, not whether it predicts new discoveries.

**Training-side evidence:** The largest single training-side province holds 18.20% of the training total (7,647 of 42,009).

**Holdout test and outcome:** The largest single holdout province holds 11.87% of the holdout total (4,685 of 39,457).

**Status:** Survived (11.87% clears the <30% ceiling).
