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

Name tokens

Name tokens in order.

Detect the L (libertus) status marker token following a name in an inscription. 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]

Libertus marker

An L marker token is present.

Marker index

Index of the marker token, -1 when absent.

• Roman name elements, filiations, tribes, freed status, and origins vary across time, region, citizenship, gender, language, and inscription type. A suffix or token is evidence for review, not a unique biographical identification.
• 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.

• Boundary Stone Terminator Term Detector

  Detect boundary-declaration terms in inscription text by whole-word matching the finis family (finis, fines, finibus, finium) and terminus family (terminus, termini, terminum, termine) case-insensitively.

• Erasure Marker Double Slash Detector

  Detect double-slash erasure (rasura) markers in a transcription, defined as runs of at least two forward or backward slashes, reporting run count, start positions, and the longest slash run.

• Patronymic Lytic Suffix Greek Detector

  Flag Latinized Greek patronymic adjective endings (-iades, -ides, -idas checked in that order, requiring at least two letters before the suffix) on a personal name.