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

Formula words

Formula words from the statue base.

Dative dedicatee

True when the dedicatee stands in the dative.

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. 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]

Marker score

Number of distinct markers plus the dative bonus.

Classification

Genre verdict for the base.

Matched markers

Matched markers in check order.

• Corpus references, formula detectors, measurements, and classifiers depend on the edition, language, script, abbreviation practice, text normalization, and preservation state. Automated output should remain linked to the diplomatic transcription and image evidence.
• 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.

• Dedicatee Divine vs Mortal Classifier by Title Tokens

  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.

• 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).

• Onomastic Region Origin Probability Hint Scorer

  Score explicit onomastic markers one point each (Latin gentilicium toward Italian origin, Greek name elements toward Greek origin, local epithet toward a regional origin) and hint at the single leading class or 'uncertain' on ties.