Use this epigraphic utility to apply a stated parsing, transcription, measurement, dating, classification, or documentation rule consistently while preparing inscriptions for scholarly review.

Text

Inscription text (interpuncts are treated as spaces).

Tag an inscription with a presence label for the Dis Manibus formula family (D M, DM, D M S, DIS MANIB- in U/V spellings), reporting occurrence frequency, a 'formula:dis-manibus'/'formula:none' tag, and the first matched form as normalized uppercase. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Present

True when any Dis Manibus variant occurs.

Occurrences

Number of variant occurrences.

Tag

Tag string 'formula:dis-manibus' or 'formula:none'.

Match text

First matched formula text (empty when absent).

• Funerary and votive formulas can overlap, be abbreviated, restored, reused, or appear outside their usual context. Genre classification should combine wording with monument type, findspot, layout, imagery, and scholarly parallels.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Retain the photograph, squeeze or scan, diplomatic transcription, provenance, dimensions, uncertainty marks, and corpus identifiers with the result. Confirm ambiguous cases against the relevant corpus, Leiden conventions, parallel inscriptions, and specialist judgment.

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• Formula Word Position Trend Across Corpus Analyzer

  Locate a formula word in each corpus line (case-insensitive first occurrence), average its relative position from 0 (line start) to 1 (line end), and label the trend initial (<1/3), medial (<2/3), or terminal.

• Letter Frequency Distribution Epigraphic Corpus Histogram

  Build a 26-slot A-Z frequency histogram for an inscription text, folding diacritics into their base Latin letters and reporting the total plus the first most frequent letter.