A New Edition of the Corpus of the Personal names in the Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Syria and Lebanon

近东地区，特别是与现代叙利亚相对应的地区，有丰富的希腊铭文，可以追溯到罗马时代到拜占庭时代（大约在公元60年代）。公元前1世纪-公元7世纪)，有少量但重要的铭文可以追溯到希腊化时期（公元前3 -1年），倭马亚（661-750年）和阿巴斯哈里发（公元750-1258年）。这些铭文部分被收录在《叙利亚铭文希腊与拉丁》（IGLS）系列中，尽管其中许多仍然只在期刊或挖掘报告中发表。还有许多希腊文和拉丁文的羊皮纸和纸莎草纸，主要来自欧洲杜拉和幼发拉底河中部。它们有各种各样的专有名称，这些名称从未得到适当的研究和收集。本项目题为《叙利亚和黎巴嫩希腊文和拉丁文铭文人名语料库新版本》，其目的是对叙利亚和黎巴嫩以及罗马帝国其他地区的希腊文和拉丁文文本中记录的人名进行全面重新评估，如果这些人名是由可证明是叙利亚/黎巴嫩血统的移民所取。被收录的铭文不仅包括铭文（在任何情况下都构成了语料库的大部分），还包括羊皮纸、纸莎草纸、马赛克上的铭文和俄斯特拉卡（ostraka），即所有（非文学的）希腊和拉丁文字，其中包含专有名称，从而首次收集了该地区所有的拟人证据。数据库中包含的名称估计大约在1.2万至1.4万单位之间。根据现代对名称的研究，将关注地理，历史和社会文化因素，如出处，宗教，家庭，姓名持有人的职业。此外，语文学分析将致力于闪米特人名（约7000-8000个单位），提供有关词源（根，神名）和名称结构的信息。所有这些数据将被输入一个数据库，收集文本中记录的所有个人姓名。在项目结束时，收集到的数据将在专著中进行分析，数据库将向公众开放。因此，收集到的数据将为科学界提供有用的资料，因为科学界日益意识到在语言学、历史、文化和宗教研究中命名和命名的重要性。此外，开放访问数据库的使用将鼓励不同领域的学者在项目结束后讨论和实施数据，从而为闪族人拟人学的研究以及古代世界的语言、文化和宗教相互作用的研究提供新的推动力。这个数据库是研究闪米特人专有名称的一个真正的创新，可以看作是收集更丰富的闪米特人拟人学的第一步。

The Near East, and particularly the region corresponding to modern Syria, is very rich in Greek inscriptions dating from the Roman to the Byzantine age (approx. 1st century BC - 7th century AD), with a lower but significant number of inscriptions dated to the Hellenistic period (3rd-1st BC), and to Umayyad (661-750) and Abbasid caliphates (750-1258 AD). These inscriptions have been partially collected in the series Inscriptions grecques et latines de Syrie (IGLS, recently restarted after a long interruption), even if many of them still remain published only in journals or excavation reports. There are also many parchments and papyri, both in Greek and Latin, coming essentially from Dura Europos and the Middle Euphrates. They bear a rich variety of proper names, which have never been properly studied and collected.The aim of the present project, entitled A New Edition of the Corpus of the Personal Names in the Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Syria and Lebanon, is to provide a full reassessment of the personal names recorded in Greek and Latin texts from Syria and Lebanon, and also from other regions of the Roman Empire, if borne by emigrants of demonstrable Syrian/Lebanese origin. The inscriptions to be included are not only the epigraphs (which in any case constitute the majority of the corpus), but also the parchments, the papyri, the inscriptions on mosaics and the ostraka, that is every (non-literary) Greek and Latin text containing proper names, thus gathering for the first time all the anthroponomastic evidence from this regions. The names included in the database are estimated to be approximately between 12.000 and 14.000 units.According to modern studies on onomastics, attention will be paid to geographical, historical, and socio-cultural elements, such as provenience, religion, family, profession of the bearers of the name. Moreover, philological analysis will be devoted to Semitic anthroponyms (ca. 7000-8000 units), giving information about etymology (roots, theonyms) and name structure.All these data will be entered in a database collecting all the personal names recorded in the texts. At the end of the project, the collected data will be analyzed in a monograph, and the database will be made accessible to the public. The collected data will thus provide useful information for the scientific community, increasingly aware of the importance of onomastics and name-giving in philological, historical, cultural and religious studies. Moreover, the use of an open-access database will encourage scholars of different fields to discuss and implement data even after the end of the project, thus giving new impulses both to the study of Semitic anthroponomastics, and to the research about the linguistic, cultural, and religious interactions in the Ancient World. The database, a real innovation in the study of Semitic proper names, may be seen as the first step in view of a richer collection of Semitic anthroponomastics.