Roman Names

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Basic Information:

Sources:




  • "A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions" - free Google ebook -

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Study_of_the_Cognomina_of_Soldiers_in.html?id=MF0KAAAAIAAJ&hl=e

  • 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.)

Maps:

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Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.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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