Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome

Purpose

This project aims to improve items related to Ancient Rome.

Labels

Labels generally used for Romans by language:

as Latin: en, de, fr, nl, sv
language specific: ca, es, it, pl, pt

Sample: Q359810 uses the label "Lucius Caecilius Metellus" in la, en, de, fr, nl, sv.

See Wikidata:Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P2358 for checks.

Latin sometimes includes the abbreviated name of the father. This is not(?) included in labels for Latin based labels.

Properties

Onomastics

Roman names follow a standard pattern. Taking the example Julius Caesar (Q1048), his full identity was C. Iulius C. f. C. n. Fab. Caesar, with

C. as praenomen (P2358)Gaius (Q5517401)
Iulius as nomen gentilicium (P2359)Julius (Q29871072), and therefore gens (P5025)Julia gens (Q510193)
C. f. C. n. the praenomina of his father and his grandfather (here C(aii) f(ilius) C(aii) n(epos)), for which we only model the first relation using father (P22)
Fab. as member of Roman tribe (P11491)Fabia (Q3538791)
Caesar as cognomen (P2365)Caesar (Q1025414)

With this in mind, a few caveats:

Cognomen isn't mandatory ; some figures i.e. families did not had one.
The use of the praenomen slowly wane and by Late Antiquity we only find it attested for the old aristocratic families of Rome.
During the Empire, it became common to agregate names as part of heritage. Some figures can boast of several praenomina, nomina and cognomina, like Marcus Calpurnius Longus (Q12286091).
Julius Caesar (Q1048) is an exceptionnaly well known individual for Antiquity standards. For most other figures, one or more of the above-listed element are unknown to us.

Time period

Items related to Ancient Rome would generally have time period (P2348) with value Roman Republic (Q17167) or Roman Empire (Q2277).

Ancient Roman architecture

Identifiers: Amphi-Theatrum ID (P5633); Theatrum ID (P5634)

Showcase items

editions of ancient texts with bitext: see Menander, Volume I (Q105702581) and Menander, Volume II (Q105702691)

Lists

WikiProject Ancient Rome

Other WikiProjects

Wikidata:WikiProject Names/lists/Roman praenomen

Workings

Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome/stemmata
- Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome/stemmata/Iulii Caesares et al.

Queries

Probably item errors to check in Wikipedias

Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome/errors

Statistics

Maintenance reports

Wikidata:WikiProject Names/reports/Romans without P2358

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