Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom

The database "Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom" (PNM) is developed as part of the project "Umformung und Variabilität im Korpus altägyptischer Personennamen 2055–1550 v. Chr." The database is currently under development and will include data on Egyptian Middle Kingdom personal names, people, written sources, titles, and dossiers of persons attested in various sources.

The online version of the database is published at https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info. The source code of the web-interface is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1418714.

Version 1 is a preliminary version published to demonstrate the main features of the database under development (and to kindly ask for feedback). Version 1 includes sources from the Second Intermediate Period sensu stricto, that is from the 14th to the 17th Dynasty (i. e., sources, associated with the foreign rulers of the Delta, independent Theban rulers, and the rulers of Kerma). The sources were pinpointed based on the dating criteria proposed in the scholarly literature. Dynasty 13 sources are not included except for the latest phase of the Dynasty (starting ca. from the reign of Sobekhotep VII). Written sources that may belong to the Second Intermediate Period are omitted if there is not enough evidence to support the date. This applies to monuments datable vaguely to the 13th-17th Dynasties. Likewise omitted are inscriptions datable to the 17th - early 18th Dynasty based on the object type, namely, stick shabtis and rishi-coffins as long as there is no ground to exclude an 18th Dynasty date.

Version 1 lacks the German translations of personal names and titles; English translations of names are still preliminary, and the classification will be refined and extended in the future versions.

It is planned to publish the final version comprising as many persons and names of the Middle Kingdom as possible in 2021.

The release includes the dump of the MySQL database (tested with MariaDB 10.1.26), the description of the database structure and the graphic representations of spellings, created with JSesh.

Version 1.r contains the same dataset as version 1 (published on 14 September 2018), but RDF representations of the dataset in the Turtle and RDF/XML notations were added to the original MySQL dump. Additionally it includes the ontology developed for this dataset (https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/ontology/) and R2RML mappings for transforming the MySQL database to RDF.