GENERAL
- Name, Namengebung by D. O. Edzard et al (German; from the Google Book version of Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 9)
AMORITE
- Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts by Herbert Bardwell Huffmon (No online text available)
- Das ammuritische Onomastikon der altbabylonischen Zeit by Michael P. Streck (German; No online text available)
ANATOLIAN (Hittite, Luwian, Palaic, etc.)
- Répertoire onomastique by Marie-Claude Trémouille (Names from records at Hattusha) (French)
- Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language (PDF) by Ilya S. Yakubovich (Includes several tables of onomastic data)
ARAMAIC (including Syriac)
- Pagan Traces in Syriac Christian Onomastica (PDF) by Amir Harrak
AKKADIAN (Assyrian and Babylonian)
- The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by Heather D. Baker (Updates to the PNA, of which no online text is available)
- Studies in Third Millennium Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names (Google Books) by Robert A. Di Vito
- Early Babylonian Personal Names (Google Books) by Hermann Ranke
- Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index by Seth Richardson
- Index of Late Old Babylonian Personal Names (Check “guest,” then “login”)
- Old Babylonian Personal Names (PDF) by Martin Stol
- Assyrian Personal Names by Knut L. Tallqvist
CANAANITE (including Ammonite, Punic, Ugaritic, etc.)
- Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions (Google Books) by Frank L. Benz
- The Ammonite Onomasticon (PDF) by M. O’Connor
CELTIC (Early British, Celtiberian, Gaulish, etc.)
- Ancient Celtic Languages: Celtiberian (Provides a short list of Celtiberian names)
- The First Thousand Years of British Names by Heather Rose Jones (Society for Creative Anachronism)
- Name Constructions in Gaulish by Heather Rose Jones (Society for Creative Anachronism)
EGYPTIAN (including Coptic)
- Oriental Institute Demotic Ostraca Online (Click “guest,” then “login”)
- Prosopographia Ptolemaica (Names from Egypt from 300–30 BC)
- Die ägyptischen Personennamen (link to PDF) by Hermann Ranke (German)
- Onomasticon Oasiticum (PDF) by R. P. Salomons and K. A. Worp (Coptic names from the Theban oasis in Greco-Roman times)
ELAMITE
- Elamite Onomastics (PDF) by Ran Zadok
ETRUSCAN
- Un Componente anatolico en la onomástica etrusca (PDF) by S. Pérez Orozco (Spanish)
GREEK
- The People of the Tablets by John Chadwick (Chapter 4 of The Mycenaean World)
- The Mycenaean personal name ke-do-jo by Elena Džukeska
- The Suffix -υλο/α- in the Mycenaean Personal Names (PDF) by Petar Hr. Ilievski
- A Prosopographical Study of Scribal Hand 103, Methods, Aims and Problems by Hedvig Landenius-Enegren (PDF) (Mycenaean names from Knossos)
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (Catalogs names from Ancient times through the Middle Ages)
HEBREW
- Jewish Personal Names in Some Non-literary Sources by Gerard Mussies (From the Google Books version of Studies in Early Jewish Epigraphy)
- Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs (PDF) by Daniel D. Stuhlman
HURRIAN
- Nuzi Personal Names by Ignace J. Gelb, Pierre M. Purves, and Allan A. MacRae. (No online text available)
- Hurrian and Hurrian Personal Names from Mari (PDF) by Jack M. Sasson
LATIN (and related languages: Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, etc.)
- Faliscan Personal Names (PDF) by Wolfgang D. C. de Melo (Includes a few examples of Etruscan, Oscan, and Umbrian names as well)
- A Simple Guide to Roman Naming Practices by Sara L. Friedemann (Society of Creative Anachronism)
- Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (Names from Roman North Africa)
- Roman Names by Harold Whetstone Johnston and Mary Johnston
- Roman Names (From a Roman military re-enactment group)
- Roman Naming Conventions in the Late Roman Republic
- Vindolanda Tablets Online: Names (Names from Roman Britain)
PERSIAN (including Avestan, Sogdian, etc.)
- Sogdian Personal Names in Chinese Sources by Y. Yoshida
- Avestan Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
- Achaemenid Period Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
- Parthian Period Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
- Sassanian Period Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
SUMERIAN
- Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (Click on “Onomastics”)
- List of Personal Names from the Temple School of Nippur (Google Books) by Edward Chiera
- Studies in Third Millennium Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names (Google Books) by Robert A. Di Vito
- Observations on the Sumerian Personal Names in Ebla Sources and on the Onomasticon of Mari and Kish (PDF) by Piotr Steinkeller
THRACIAN
- The Language of the Thracians by Ivan Duridanov (Provides examples of Thracian toponyms, personal names, tribal names, and names of deities. Caveat: The writer does not provide dates or provenance for the names he lists)
VASCONIC (Aquitanian, Iberian, Proto-Basque)
- The Ascoli Inscription (Latin roster of Iberian cavalry soldiers)
- Major Iberian Personal Names Compound Bases by Jesús Rodríguez Ramos
- Names Identified from Roman-Era Aquitanian Stones by Karen Larsdatter
I find the Medieval Names Archive of the Society for Creative Anachronism to be a fascinating read. By learning about the names, I find I also learn about the culture and language of people who lived long ago. The Medieval Names Archive roughly covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire to about AD 1600. I’ve long thought there ought to be something equivalent for those whose interests extended deeper into the past: an online repository of links and resources for naming enthusiasts.
I am by no means qualified to take on such a project, but I have collected the above links to free online information about names and naming in the ancient world. Perhaps some industrious soul will feel inspired to transform some thin slice of this raw material into usable web pages.
[…] Pursiful has compiled a really helpful list of online resources for the study of ancient personal names. It includes Sumerian, Akkadian, […]
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One more, to update the Amurrite materials…
M. P. Streck, Das amurritische Onomastikon der altbabylonischen Zeit. Band 1: Die Amurriter, Die onomastische Forschung, Orthographie und Phonologie, Nominalmorphologie. Alter Orient und Altes Testament Band 271/1, Münster 2000.
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Thanks, Steven. I’ve added your suggestion. In general, however, I’d like to limit this page to resources available for free online. Print resources or purchasable downloads are the domain of the professionals, and I am definitely an amateur when it comes to ancient onomastics!
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Darrell:
You might also be interested in:
http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.be/prosptol/index.html
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[…] Pursiful posted an entry with many online resources for the study of ancient names. Links to sites from Amorite to Thracian sprinkle his blog entry. This is a very helpful list for […]
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[…] Allred offered some helpful additions to the Pursiful List of Online Resources for Ancient Names (PLORAN; soon to come out in hardback by Brill for $250): For Akkadian, one could add Stamm’s old […]
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Also to consider:
Seth Richardson’s Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index (LOB-PNI)
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/lobpni/
The onomastic index of the Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)
http://bdts.filol.csic.es/
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[…] Pursiful (Dr. Platypus) provides an eminently helpful resource page for ancient names. Charles Halton (Awilum) notes some additional […]
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