Check Before You Ink — Attested Script Verification

Check Before You Ink

Skin is permanent; the internet's runes are not always right. Verify a name's attested original script — with per-sign provenance — or paste the script you were sent and check it against the corpus before it goes on your body.

Using the verifier means accepting the Attested Script Verification Terms — including what we can and cannot guarantee.

We answer with the attested form, its period, and its per-sign provenance — never a modern approximation.

Famous Errors, Corrected

The five tattoo mistakes the internet repeats most — each with the correction. If your design is on this page, you just saved yourself a very permanent lesson.

What We Can and Cannot Verify

What "attested" means here. A green verdict means the exact string you pasted appears in the PuniCodex corpus of verified original scripts — forms drawn from inscriptions, manuscripts, and the standard scholarly editions, each with per-sign provenance. It does not mean the form is the only correct one; traditions vary by period and region.

What "not in corpus" means. Only that we cannot vouch for it. Absence is not proof of error — the corpus covers the mythological canon, not every name ever written. If your script matters to you, ask a scholar of the language, not a generator.

What we never do. We do not invent "close enough" forms, we do not write your name into an alphabet it never had, and we do not call modern conventions ancient. Where a reading is a modern convention — Egyptian vowels above all — we say so on the card.