Mesopotamian Ancient Place-names Almanac

Version 1.0 of the MAPA Gazetteer, presented here in CSV and JSON formats, is the presentation of a gazetteer drawn from legal, economic and administrative texts from the First Millennium BCE, issued in and around the Mesopotamian city of Uruk. The listed toponyms were input manually from the books and articles in MAPA_Gazetteer.bib. The gazetteer follows the JSON-LD based Linked Places format of the World Historical Gazetteer. The readme contains a key to the database’s fields, a brief introduction to the MAPA project and its next steps, and a bibliography.MAPA地名辞典（MAPA Gazetteer）1.0版本以CSV与JSON格式发布，其为一套取材于公元前一千纪发布于美索不达米亚城邦乌鲁克（Uruk）及其周边地区的法律、经济与行政文本的地名辞典。所收录的地名均从MAPA_Gazetteer.bib文献库中的书籍与文章中手动录入。本地名辞典遵循世界历史地名辞典（World Historical Gazetteer）基于JSON-LD的关联地点（Linked Places）格式规范。本数据集的自述文件包含数据库字段说明、MAPA项目简介及后续规划，以及参考文献列表。