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

Lines

Number of inscribed lines.

Line average

Average characters per line.

Reconstruct the total character length of a lost or damaged inscription text from its surviving line count and the average characters per line. 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]

Text length

Estimated total character length of the text.

• 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.

• Line Count from Text Length and Column Width Estimator

  Estimate how many inscribed lines a text of given character length occupies at an average column width in characters per line, rounding up to whole lines.

• Vacat Dot Series Length Counter

  Count runs of dot characters ('.' or middle dot U+00B7) recording vacant spaces in a transcription, tallying series at or above a minimum length (default 3 dots), the longest series, and the total dot count.

• 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.