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).
Description
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).
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).
When to use Votive versus Funerary Genre Quick Classifier
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 of the inscription.
How Votive versus Funerary Genre Quick Classifier works
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). 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
- Genre
- Quick genre label.
- Matched markers
- Matched markers that determined the label.
Limitations and assumptions
- 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.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
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.
References
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Roman funerary practices — Wikipedia contributors
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