Prosopographia Ptolemaica

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The Prosopographia Ptolemaica is a prosopographical reference work that is intended to cover all the inhabitants of the Ptolemaic empire who are known from ancient sources. The development takes place in a long-term research project at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

The ten volumes published so far have been published in the Studia Hellenistica series. The basic inventory of the reference work is made up of the first six volumes, which appeared from 1950 to 1968 and were largely prepared by Willy Peremans and Edmond Van't Dack. The entries are structured according to the fields of activity of the persons they contain, which in turn are grouped into the six volumes according to larger subject groups (civil administration, armed forces, priesthood, agriculture, trade and craft, royal court ...). The person entries are sorted alphabetically within the individual categories. Volume 7 (published 1975) offers an alphabetical index of names for all entries in these volumes. In 1975 and 1981, supplements and corrections to the first three volumes of the complete work were published in volumes 8 and 9.

Originally, Willy Peremans and Edmond Van't Dack intended to publish a second alphabetical part in addition to the “systematic” part of the reference work, which is divided into occupational and activity groups. This would also have included the inhabitants of the Ptolemaic Empire attested in the sources, whose area of ​​activity is not known. Volume 7 with the alphabetical index had already presented a first approach to this second part of prosopography. Later, however, it became apparent that this project had become largely obsolete with the advent of electronic data processing with the new possibilities of searchable databases. Instead, the previously published personal entries and other available, unpublished material were collected in an electronic database. This was published on the website of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and has meanwhile been integrated into the Trismegistos personal database . Nevertheless, it was decided to publish further volumes of the Prosopographia Ptolemaica in book form in addition to those structured according to areas of activity. Of these, only one has so far appeared in 2002, which is the tenth volume of the complete work and lists the inhabitants of the Ptolemaic Empire, whose ethnic origin is known, sorted according to this criterion.

Volumes published

  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 1: L'administration civile et financière: n o 1 à 1824 (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 6). Bibliotheca universitatis Lovanii, Leuven 1950.
  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 2: L'Armée de terre et la police: n os 1825-4983 (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 8). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1952.
  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Band 3: Le clergé, le notary, les tribunaux: n os 4984-8040 (= . Studia Hellenistica band 11). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1956.
  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 4: L'agriculture et l'élevage: n os 8041-12459 (= . Studia Hellenistica band 12). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1959.
  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 5: Le commerce et l'industrie; le transport sur terre et la fleet; la domesticité (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 13). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1963.
  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack, Leon Mooren, Wilfried Swinnen: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 6: La cour, les relations internationales et les possessions extérieures, la vie culturelle (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 17). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1968.
  • Loe de Meulemeester-Swinnen, Hans Hauben: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 7: Index nominum (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 20). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1975.
  • Leon Mooren, Wilfried Swinnen: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 8: Addenda et Corrigenda aux Volumes I (1950) and II (1952) (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 21). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1975.
  • Willy Clarysse: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 9: Addenda et Corrigenda au Volume III (1956) (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 25). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 1981.
  • Csaba A. La'da: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 10: Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 38). Peeters, Löwen 2002, ISBN 90-429-1195-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prosopographia Ptolemaica Online. Blog entry on "The Ancient World Online" from September 23, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 1: L'administration civile et financière: n o 1 à 1824. Bibliotheca universitatis Lovanii, Löwen 1950, pp. XII – XIV.
  3. ^ Leon Mooren: The Automatization of the Prosopographia Ptolemaica. In: Isabella Andorlini (ed.): Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Volume 2, Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, Florence 2001, pp. 995-1007.
  4. ↑ Overview of Prosopographia Ptolemaica on the website of the University of Leuven , accessed on October 14, 2018.
  5. ^ Note of the Series Editors concerning the alphabetical section of the Prosopographia Ptolemaica. In: Csaba A. La'da: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 10: Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt. Peeters, Löwen 2002, ISBN 90-429-1195-6 , p. XXIII f.