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 containing the acronym.

Require dots

Require a period or middle dot between every pair of letters.

Expand the funerary acronym STTL to Sit Tibi Terra Levis and report its dotted rendering. 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]

Expansion

Expanded formula, empty when absent.

Dotted

First occurrence rendered with interpuncts.

Occurrences

Occurrences found.

• 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).

• Common Latin Epigraphic Abbreviation Expander (DIS MANIBUS etc.)

  Expand common Latin epigraphic abbreviations (DM, DIS MAN, D M S, STTL, VSLM, HSE, PM, TR P, COS, HS and spaced variants) to full formulas, matching whole case-insensitive tokens after normalizing mid-dots to spaces.

• Cartouche Enclosure Oval Aspect Ratio Checker

  Check the height-to-width aspect ratio of a cartouche or oval enclosure and report its orientation.