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

Deity named

True when an actual deity name appears as dedicatee.

Dative case

True when the dedicatee phrase is dative.

Formula words

Formula words of the dedication line.

Classify the dedicatee as divine or mortal from explicit markers in this documented order: a named deity wins; then any 'manibus' formula marks a mortal deceased; then god tokens (deo, deae, deis, dis, numini) mark divine; then 'bene merenti' or affectionate superlatives (memoriae, pientissimo/a, karissimo/a, dulcissimo/a) mark mortal; otherwise the result is uncertain. 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]

Classification

Classification outcome.

Evidence

Marker that determined the decision, or empty string.

Rationale

One-line justification of the rule applied.

• 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.

• Votive versus Funerary Genre Quick Classifier

  Quickly label an inscription votive, funerary, mixed, or uncertain by matching documented marker sets in the joined formula words (votive: 'v s l m', libens merito, donum dedit, votum solvit, vslm, donavit, dedicavit; funerary: dis manibus, sit tibi terra levis, hic iacet, in pace, manibus, memoriae, sttl).

• Honorific Statue Base Genre Marker Checker

  Score honorific statue-base markers by matching documented phrases ('ob merita', 'ob excellentem', 'ob insignem', 'ob munificentiam') and tokens (honori, honore, patrono, patronae, civi, beneficiario, equiti), add one point for a dative dedicatee when any marker matches, and label the base honorific-high at a score of two or more, honorific-low at one, otherwise not-honorific.

• Sigla Abbreviation Stop Mark Position Checker (mid-dot)

  Check middle-dot (interpunct U+00B7) stop marks in name tokens of an inscription, counting their occurrences and flagging any token with a leading or trailing dot as malformed sigla punctuation.