Roman Names
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Basic Information:
- "A Simple Guide to Classical Roman Naming Practices" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Friedemann) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/other/sg-roman.html
- "A Simple Guide to Imperial Roman Names" by Ursula Georges - http://yarntheory.net/ursulageorges/names/roman.html
Sources:
- Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/
- Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/
- Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
- Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/
- Omniglot On-line Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages - http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm
- " The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era"= url: http://books.google.com/books?id=FpSq2ppuh84C&pg=PA196&dq=Faustus+Cornelius+Sulla&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uIqOULGKCMbg2QXgj4DABw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Faustus%20Cornelius%20Sulla&f=false
- "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology" url: http://books.google.com/books?id=f-5WAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA934&dq=Faustus+Cornelius+Sulla&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IomOUK2rOaWe2AXz_IH4DA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Faustus%20Cornelius%20Sulla&f=false
- Inscriptions of Israel / Palestine - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/ - inscriptions (with English translations) of Israel/Palestine from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE).
- "Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania" text search - http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/search/search_text.html
- Legio XXIV list (also linked from heraldry.sca.org): http://www.legionxxiv.org/nomens/ (not necessarily completely reliable)
- Collingwood & Wright's Roman Inscriptions of Britain, Volume One epigraphical index: http://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/epindex/
- "A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions" - free Google ebook -
- “Roman Female Cognomina” by Tuomo Nuorluoto - https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1514294/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- Trismegistos People - http://www.trismegistos.org/ref/index.php (Trismegistos People is a tool dealing with personal names of non-royal individuals attested as living in Egypt in documentary texts between BC 800 and AD 800, including all languages and scripts written on any surface.)
- " Warlords of Republican Rome: Caesar Against Pompey" url: http://books.google.com/books?id=dVtuQidyB0sC&pg=PA235&dq=Faustus+Cornelius+Sulla&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uIqOULGKCMbg2QXgj4DABw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Faustus%20Cornelius%20Sulla&f=false
Maps:
- "Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Re-Considered" (only surviving map of the Roman world) http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/index.html also
- "Omnes Viae: Roman Route Planner" (also based on Peutinger Map) - http://www.omnesviae.org/]
Precedents:
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Restatement Wiki - http://yehudaheraldry.com/restatement/index.php?title=Main_Page (restatements of Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.
Collected Name Precedents: Roman - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Roman.html
March 2014 Cover Letter: Legion XXIV and Acceptable Sources for Roman Names
In January, we made the following ruling:
- Due to the number of mistakes in the Legion XXIV "Roman Names" article, it should not be used as the sole documentation for a name element. We recommend instead that submitters use the articles on Roman names found at http://heraldry.sca.org/names.html#roman, such as the recently released "A Simple Guide to Imperial Roman Names" by Ursula Georges. [Quintus Artorius Mica, 01/2014, A-Caid]
This should have also been placed on a Cover Letter. I am correcting this omission.
Additional resources can be found at the Academy of Saint Gabriel site (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/otherearly.shtml#roman). Please note that these sources are not no-photocopy, with the exception of the client reports and articles also on the Laurel website. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2014/03/14-03cl.html
October 2006 - attested patterns for women
Aureliana Octavia Avita. Name. This name does not follow an attested pattern for either Roman or Byzantine women's names. If analyzed as a Roman name, the name uses the pattern [nomen] + [nomen] + [cognomen]. However, we have no evidence that Roman names used this pattern. The most common pattern for a Roman woman's name is [(father's) nomen (in the feminine form)] + [cognomen]. Likewise, for a Byzantine Greek name, we would expect a given name and a patronymic or family name. We have no examples of a Byzantine woman's name with two given names and a descriptive byname. To make this name registerable, either the first or the second name needs to be dropped; this would provide the Roman [nomen] + [cognomen] style name. However, this is a major change which the submitter will not accept. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2006/10/06-10lar.html
From October 2006 - attested patterns for men
Titus Adelphus Lupus. Name. As documentation for this name claimed that the name followed the pattern [praenomen] + [cognomen] + [agnomen]. However, no documentation was submitted and none supplied by the commenters to suggest that such a pattern was found in Roman names. Barring such documentation, names following these patterns are not registerable. To make this name registerable, we suggest adding a nomen. Names of the pattern [praemomen] + [nomen] + [cognomen] + [agnomen] are attested in Roman naming practices; adding a nomen after the praemomen in the submitted name would follow this attested pattern. [[1]]
Roman Name precedents prior to 2004 (as of 9/2012) may be found at:
http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Roman.html
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