Lexicon of Greek Personal Names- Lower Egypt and the Fayum

该项目将创建来自埃及的希腊个人姓名证据的权威集合，释放这些姓名所包含的潜力，以创新研究希腊罗马埃及古代生活的方方面面。它构成了希腊人名词典(LGPN)项目的一部分，该项目涵盖了从最早的历史记录(公元前8世纪)到拜占庭早期(公元7世纪)的时期。LGPN不仅仅是关于名字，也是关于人。每一个名字的持有者都被包括在内。因此，它是研究社会史大多数方面的基本工具。已出版的七本LGPN卷(第八卷即将出版，第九卷正在进行中)已成为任何古代历史学家工具箱中的基本物品。通过一系列的会议和出版物，LGPN在文学学者、社会历史学家以及金石学家中鼓励了名词意识和研究的繁荣。这九卷书将涵盖整个古希腊世界，从意大利到巴基斯坦，除了埃及。我们计划分两个阶段解决埃及问题；第一个阶段，也就是本申请的主题，是涵盖下埃及(即北部)埃及(尼罗河三角洲)和法尤姆绿洲。我们目前估计涉及的人数约为100,000人，即需要两卷约450对开页的规模。古希腊-罗马时代埃及的历史，就是先是希腊人，然后是罗马人对顽强的古代文化进行统治的历史。命名是复杂的文化适应和抵制发生的关键证据之一。寻求在公共领域出人头地的男性埃及人通常会取一个希腊名字，而不是埃及人(有时是从埃及人那里翻译过来的)；在罗马统治下，他们经常有两个希腊名字，显然是模仿罗马公民的两个(或三个)名字。相比之下，大量希腊-埃及混血名字的出现证明了一种文化融合被视为理所当然的感觉。后来，新名字成为基督教传播的一个关键指标，尽管有争议。埃及面临着两个特殊的挑战。首先，这里的希腊语证据与埃及人的证据共存。其次，由于纸莎草能在干燥的气候中存活，现有证据的数量是独一无二的丰富。我们将通过与鲁汶埃及学网站Trismegistos(TM)的创建者合作来应对这两个挑战，该网站已经收集了大部分希腊和埃及(民间)来源的名字，但其形式迫切需要筛选和分类。通过专门设计的界面导入鲁汶数据将使进度比以前的卷快得多。这两种策略将允许我们以用户友好的形式将看似难以管理的丰富的埃及材料纳入我们出版的系列丛书中，也将在可搜索的网站上与希腊世界的其他部分一起发布。结果将通过两卷(列出原籍地每个名字的持有者)、网站和LGPN系列中的第六卷+会议来传播，专家们将在该项目收集的证据的帮助下，解决埃及材料带来的文化互动和变化的问题。LGPN一直是数字人文领域的重要存在，最近对数据库进行了重大转换，以允许在(例如)的基础上进行全面在线搜索地点、时间和状态。我们将与项目合作伙伴巴黎的索菲·米农领导的团队合作，开发一个‘语言扩展’(LGPN-Ling)，它将提供对数据库中所有希腊名字的完整语言分析。我们将通过一个将于2018年创建的开源工具，将LGPN引入链接开放数据的世界，该工具将在数字“西西里的铭文”中嵌入到LGPN的链接，我们将重新使用它来连接所有其他数字墓志学语料库。

This project will create an authoritative collection of Greek personal name evidence from Egypt, unlocking the potential contained in such names for innovative research into every aspect of ancient life in Greco-Roman Egypt. It forms part of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) project which covers the period from the earliest historical records (8th c. BC) to the early Byzantine period (7th c. AD). LGPN is not just about names but about people. Every attested bearer of a name is included. It is thus a fundamental tool for research into most aspects of social history.The seven published LGPN volumes (an eighth is imminent, a ninth in progress) have established themselves among the essential items in any ancient historian's toolbox. Through a succession of conferences and publications, LGPN has encouraged a boom in onomastic awareness and research, among literary scholars and social historians as well as epigraphists. Those nine volumes will have covered the whole ancient Greek world from Italy to Pakistan, other than Egypt. We plan to tackle Egypt in two phases; the first, the subject of the present application, is to cover Lower (i.e. northern) Egypt (the Nile delta) and the Fayum oasis. Our current estimate of the number of persons involved is c. 100,000, i.e. on a scale to require two volumes of c. 450 folio pages. The history of Greco-Roman Egypt is the history of the imposition of first Greek, then Roman rule upon a tenacious ancient culture. Naming is one of the key sources of evidence for the complicated cultural accommodations and resistances that occurred. Male Egyptians seeking to get ahead in the public sphere often took a Greek name in addition to an Egyptian (sometime 'translated' from the latter); under Roman rule they often bore two Greek names, apparently in imitation of the two (or three) names borne by Roman citizens. The emergence of numerous Greco-Egyptian hybrid names by contrast attests a sense in which cultural mixing was taken for granted. Later, new names become a crucial if controversial index of the spread of Christianity. Egypt presents two special challenges. First, evidence in Greek here co-exists with that in Egyptian demotic. Second, because of the survival of papyri in a dry climate, the quantity of evidence available is uniquely abundant. We will meet both challenges by collaboration with the creators of Leuven's Egyptological website Trismegistos (TM), which has already collected most of the names attested in Greek and Egyptian (demotic) sources, but in a form which urgently requires sifting and sorting. Importing the Leuven data through a specially designed interface will allow much rapider progress than in previous volumes. These twin strategies will allow us to include the seemingly unmanageably copious Egyptian material in user-friendly form within our series of published volumes, and also on the searchable website along with the rest of the Greek world.Results will be disseminated via the two volumes (listing every bearer of every name under place of origin), the website, and a sixth conference-plus-volume in the established LGPN series, at which experts will tackle the issues of cultural interaction and change posed by the Egyptian material with the aid of the evidence collected by the project.LGPN has always been an important presence in the field of Digital Humanities, most recently since a major conversion of the database to allow full online searching on the basis of (e.g.) location, time, and status. In collaboration with a team led by Project Partner Sophie Minon of Paris we will develop a 'linguistic extension' (LGPN-Ling) which will provide a full linguistic analysis of all Greek names in the database. We will launch LGPN into the world of Linked Open Data via an open source tool, to be created in 2018, which will embed links to LGPN in the digital 'Inscriptions of Sicily' and which we will re-use to link up with all other digital epigraphic corpora.