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This file is a supplement to the Prosopographical database of Yahudu and its surroundings (file Yahudu.csv / Yahudu.xlsx). It provides unique id numbers for those Judean fathers whose name is preserved as a patronymic. The file relates to Chapter 4 in Tero Alstola: Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill.

THE DATA DERIVES FROM THE FOLLOWING TEXT PUBLICATIONS
A1: Abraham, Kathleen (2005/2006). "West Semitic and Judean Brides in Cuneiform Sources from the Sixth Century BCE: New Evidence from a Marriage Contract from Āl-Yahudu". Archiv für Orientforschung 51, 198–219.
A2: Abraham, Kathleen (2007). "An Inheritance Division among Judeans in Babylonia from the Early Persian Period". Meir Lubetski (ed.), New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean, and Cuneiform. Hebrew Bible Monographs 8. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 206–221.
B: texts 1-42 edited in Wunsch, Cornelia (forthcoming). Judeans by the Waters of Babylon: New Historical Evidence in Cuneiform Sources from Rural Babylonia in the Schøyen Collection. With Contributions by L. E. Pearce. Babylonische Archive 6. Dresden: ISLET.
C: Pearce, Laurie E. and Wunsch, Cornelia (2014). Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer. Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 28. Bethesda: CDL.
J1–7: Joannès, Francis and Lemaire, André (1996). "Contrats babyloniens d’époque achéménide du Bît-Abî râm avec une épigraphe araméenne". Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale 90, 41–60.
J8–9: Joannès, Francis and Lemaire, André (1999). "Trois tablettes cunéiformes à onomastique ouest-sémitique (collection Sh. Moussaïeff)". Transeuphratène 17, 17–34.

COLUMN CODES OF THE DATASET
ID: unique identification number of a person
NAME: name of a person
LANGUAGE: language or geographical origin of a personal name (Akk = Akkadian; Arab = Arabian; Aram = Aramaic; DN = the personal name contains a noteworthy theophoric element; Egypt = Egyptian; Iran = Iranian; Jud = Judean; Sem = Semitic; WS = West Semitic)
JUDEAN: 1 if a person is of Judean descent, 0 if not
YAHWISTIC: 1 if a personal name contains the Yahwistic theophoric element, 0 if not
DETERMINATIVE (DINGIR): 1 if a Yahwistic name is written with the divine determinative (dingir) in cuneiform, 0 if not
DOC: document number (for the abbreviations, see above)
PLACE: place of writing the document
DATE: date of writing the document (day-month-year)
REGNAL YEAR: the regnal year (of a Babylonian/Persian king) when the document was written (for conventions and abbreviations, see Alstola: Judeans)
YEAR: the year when the document was written according to the Julian calendar; however, for the purpose of handling the data, Julian years are matched to the Babylonian calendar and thus begin in the month of Nisannu (March-April) and extend until the end of Addaru (February-March) of the next year. For example, the tenth year of Nabonidus which started on 22 March 546 BCE and ended on 8 April 545 BCE is labeled as 546 in the database.
MONTH: month in which the document was written (1-13; 13 indicating an intercalary Addaru)
DAY: day in which the document was written (1-30)
SCRIBE: name of the scribe who wrote the document (first name/patronymic/family name)
TYPE OF DOCUMENT: a short description of the document type in which a person is attested
ROLE IN THE DOCUMENT: a short description of the role a person plays in the document (e.g. debtor, scribe, or witness; W1 indicates the first witness in the list etc.)
FEMALE: 1 if a person is female, - if not
ID OF THE FATHER: unique identification number. If a person's patronymic can be connected to an individual with an ID, the ID is given here (see the column ID above). If not, an ID starting with "x" is given.
PATRONYMIC: patronymic of a person
LANGUAGE: language or geographical origin of the patronymic
YAHWISTIC: 1 if the patronymic is Yahwistic, 0 if not
DETERMINATIVE (DINGIR): 1 if a Yahwistic patronymic is written with the divine determinative (dingir) in cuneiform, 0 if not
