Open the dossier
The Formula Dossier's main interactive surface is an 8-tab single-page application (Overview · Chronology · Geography · Institutions · Cross-influence · Browse decrees · Formula bank · Evidentiary Profile) with a closed-vocabulary formula bank, slim decree shards across 6,617 records, geography map, cross-influence network with outer-orbit isolates, institutional tree, Evidentiary Profile typology with synchronized viewBox-based zoom, and case-study launcher.
▶ Main dossier (8 tabs)
The full interactive application: formula bank · decree shards · geography · cross-influence · institutions · Evidentiary Profile (zoom & faceted by RT tier) · case studies. ~18 MB; gzip transfer ~2.5 MB.
📋 Case studies (21) · foldable sidebar in dossier
Twenty-one case studies linked from the foldable left sidebar of the main dossier, grouped into six categories (Roman SCs · Greek classical decrees · Greek Hellenistic decrees · Royal letters & mixed dossiers · Roman leges · Imperial edicts & rogationes), with state persisted to localStorage.
🔧 Restoration workbench
Tier-2 plugin for interactive restoration of lacunae using the closed formula vocabulary.
📊 Preservation typology bibliography (9 thematic blocks)
Scholarly anchors for the Top-12 preservation-type narratives in the Evidentiary Profile tab. Nine thematic blocks: epigraphic-habit · Greek methodology · Latin methodology · restoration scholarship · exemplar-text scholarship · prosopographic density · destruction-erasure · corpus-specific conventions · monumental display. 38 bibliographic entries; each Top-12 row in the dossier links here via a citation anchor.
The corpus, at a glance
The 21 case studies, by period
Classical (6 cases)
Hellenistic (4 cases)
Republican (5 cases)
Imperial (5 cases)
All 21 case studies are reciprocally cross-linked with companion critical editions in the matrix-hub Greco-Roman Public Documents corpus; see the per-case-study "Matrix-Hub companion editions" section.
Quick-jump to flagship case studies
Case #12 · Eleans-Heraeans treaty
Earliest dated decree-class document in the corpus (c. 500 BCE). Bronze tablet from Olympia in Elean Doric with retained digamma.
Case #19 · Magnesia asylia dossier
Two-genre composite: royal letter (Antiochus III, Welles 31) + Cretan koinon decree (Magnesia 40-41). c. 208–205 BCE.
Case #1 · SC de Bacchanalibus
Earliest preserved SC, 186 BCE. Bronze tablet from Tiriolo, Bruttium.
Case #20 · Tabula Hebana
Tiberian rogatio creating five new centuriae Germanici, AD 19/20. The IMPERIAL-ROGATIO genre anchor.
Teaching curriculum
The Formula Dossier doubles as a 15-week course on the formulaic language of ancient public inscriptions. See INSTRUCTOR.md for the syllabus, rubric, and Weeks 13/14/15 lesson plans (Ithaca, Aeneas, the Cyrene capstone).
INSTRUCTOR.md
15-week curriculum with rubric and lesson notes for the workshop weeks.