LIRE

LIRE dataset (Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire) is an aggregate of EDH and EDCS epigraphic datasets and a filtered and spatio-temporally resetricted version of the LIST dataset, including only inscriptions which are (a) geolocated, (b) within the borders of the Roman Empire in its highest extent, (c) dated (d) in the dating interval intersecting the period from 50 BC to 350 AD. In this version, the dataset consists of 182,852 records and 65 attributes. There are 59,374 inscriptions shared by EDH and EDCS, inheriting attributes from both parent collections. Further, there are 2,244 inscriptions recorded exclusively in EDH and 121,234 inscriptions originating solely from EDCS. In cases in which an inscription is available only in one dataset, it contains attributes only from that one dataset. We publish the dataset as one parquet or geojson file. Using `geopandas` library, you can load the data directly into your Python environment using the following command: `LIRE = gpd.read_parquet("https://zenodo.org/record/8147298/files/LIRE_v2-3.parquet?download=1")`. The scripts used to generate the dataset and their metadata are available via GitHub: <code>https://github.com/sdam-au/LI_ETL</code>.