Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom

The database "Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom" (PNM) is developed as part of the projects "Umformung und Variabilität im Korpus altägyptischer Personennamen 2055–1550 v. Chr." and “Altägyptische Titel in amtlichen und familiären Kontexten, 2055-1352 v. Chr.”. The database includes data on Egyptian Middle Kingdom personal names, people, written sources, titles, and dossiers of persons attested in various sources. The online version of the database is published at https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info. The source code of the web-interface is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1418714. Version 4 covers the entire timeframe of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. It comparison to version 3, it adds ca. 1500 attestations of personal names. Version 4r corrects a technical error making the database dump incompatible with the standard MariaDB settings. The data remains unchanged. It lacks the German translations of personal names and translations of titles. The translations and the classification of personal names are still preliminary. The coverage of titles is currently limited to a list of titles occurring in sources (excluding epithets) and a cross index to Ward’s and Fischer’s handbooks of Middle Kingdom titles. Titles will be further analysed during the current project, which also addresses early 18th Dynasty material. Some occasional First Intermediate Period sources are also included in the database, but no attempt was made to cover them systematically. The release includes the dump of the MySQL database (tested with MariaDB 10.3.31), the description of the database structure, the graphic representations of spellings, created with JSesh, and RDF representations of the dataset in the Turtle and RDF/XML notations. Additionally it includes the ontology developed for this dataset (https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/ontology/) and R2RML mappings for transforming the MySQL database to RDF. A live SPARQL interface to the RDF version of the dataset can be found at https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/sparql.中王国时期人物与人名数据库（Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom，简称PNM）系“公元前2055–前1550年古埃及人名语料库的演变与变异性”及“公元前2055–前1352年官方与家族语境下的古埃及头衔”两项研究项目的成果。本数据库收录古埃及中王国时期的人名、人物、书写文献、头衔，以及各类文献中佐证的人物档案。该数据库的在线版本发布于https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info。其网页界面的源代码可通过https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1418714获取。 版本4覆盖中王国全时段及第二中间期；相较于版本3，其新增约1500条人名佐证记录。版本4r修复了导致数据库导出文件与标准MariaDB设置不兼容的技术错误，数据内容未作改动。 本数据库暂无人名的德语译法及头衔译文，人名的译法与分类仍处于初步阶段。目前头衔的覆盖范围仅限于文献中出现的头衔列表（不含修饰性别称），以及与沃德（Ward）和费舍尔（Fischer）所著《中王国头衔手册》的交叉索引。当前项目将进一步开展头衔分析工作，该项目同时涵盖第十八王朝早期的相关材料。数据库中亦收录少量第一中间期文献，但未对其进行系统性覆盖。 本次发布包含MySQL数据库导出文件（已通过MariaDB 10.3.31版本测试）、数据库结构说明、由JSesh生成的书写形式可视化图表，以及采用Turtle与RDF/XML格式的数据集RDF序列化形式。此外还包含为本数据集开发的本体（https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/ontology/），以及用于将MySQL数据库转换为RDF的R2RML映射规则。可通过https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/sparql访问该数据集RDF版本的实时SPARQL接口。