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

近东，特别是与现代叙利亚相对应的地区，有非常丰富的希腊文铭文，可以追溯到罗马到拜占庭时代(大约。公元前1世纪-公元7世纪)，与较低，但显著数量的铭文可追溯到希腊化时期(公元前3-1)，以及乌马亚(661-750)和阿巴斯哈里发国(公元750-1258)。这些铭文已部分收录在《叙利亚墓志铭》(IGLS，在长期中断后最近重新启动)系列中，尽管其中许多仍然只在期刊或挖掘报告上发表。还有许多羊皮纸和纸莎草纸，既有希腊文也有拉丁文，主要来自杜拉·欧罗波斯和中幼发拉底河。本项目题为《叙利亚和黎巴嫩希腊文和拉丁文人名库新版》，其目的是全面重新评估叙利亚和黎巴嫩的希腊文和拉丁文文本中记录的人名，以及罗马帝国其他地区的人名，如果这些人名是由具有明显叙利亚/黎巴嫩血统的移民所拥有的话。要包括的铭文不仅是墓志铭(这在任何情况下构成了语料库的大多数)，而且羊皮纸，纸莎草纸，马赛克和Ostraka上的铭文，这是每一个(非文学)希腊和拉丁文文本包含适当的名称，因此第一次收集来自该地区的所有人类学证据。该数据库收录的名字估计约为12.000至14.000个单位。根据现代名词学研究，将关注地理、历史和社会文化因素，如出处、宗教、家庭、姓名承担者的职业。此外，还将对闪族人名(约7000-8000个单位)进行文献学分析，提供有关词源(词根、人名)和姓名结构的信息。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人名。在项目结束时，收集的数据将以专著形式进行分析，数据库将向公众开放。因此，收集的数据将为科学界提供有用的信息，使他们日益认识到命名和命名在语言学、历史、文化和宗教研究中的重要性。此外，开放获取数据库的使用将鼓励不同领域的学者甚至在项目结束后讨论和实施数据，从而为闪族人类学的研究和古代世界语言、文化和宗教互动的研究注入新的动力。该数据库是研究闪族专有名称的一项真正的创新，可以被视为更丰富的闪族人类学集合的第一步。

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.