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

Name

Roman name to analyze.

Analyzes whether a Roman name supplies the full tria nomina using standard praenomen tokens and gentilicial -ius/-eus/-ia/-ea nomen endings. 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]

Has praenomen

First token is a known praenomen or abbreviation.

Has nomen

A later token ends with a gentilicial suffix.

Has cognomen

At least one element remains beyond praenomen and nomen.

Score

Count of tria nomina slots present, zero to three.

Complete

All three onomastic slots are present.

• 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.

• Cognomen Count Onomastic Element Tally Calculator

  Tallies the whitespace-separated onomastic elements of a Roman name and reports how many beyond praenomen and nomen are likely cognomina.

• Gentilicium Italian Origin Hint Checker

  Apply a transparent typological heuristic in which a single-word nomen ending in -ius (masculine) or -ia with at least five letters (feminine) hints at an Italian/Latin gentilicial origin.

• Greek Inscription Abbreviation Expander Nomina Sacra

  Expand Greek nomen sacrum abbreviations (ΘΣ ΚΣ ΙΣ/ΙΗΣ ΧΣ ΠΝΑ ΣΩΡ ΠΗΡ ΜΗΡ ΥΣ ΔΑΔ ΙΛΗΜ ΙΣΡΛ ΕΚΚΛΣ) to their uninflected nominative lemmas by convention, matching whole case-insensitive tokens.