Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome

This project aims to improve items related to Ancient Rome.

Labels generally used for Romans by language:

• as Latin: en, de, fr, nl, sv
• language specific: ca, es, it, pl, pt

Sample: Q359810 uses the label "Lucius Caecilius Metellus" in la, en, de, fr, nl, sv.

See Wikidata:Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P2358 for checks.

Latin sometimes includes the abbreviated name of the father. This is not(?) included in labels for Latin based labels.

Roman names follow a standard pattern. Taking the example Julius Caesar (Q1048), his full identity was C. Iulius C. f. C. n. Fab. Caesar, with

• C. as Roman praenomen (P2358)Gaius (Q5517401)
• Iulius as Roman nomen gentilicium (P2359)Julius (Q29871072), and therefore gens (P5025)Julia gens (Q510193)
• C. f. C. n. the praenomina of his father and his grandfather (here C(aii) f(ilius) C(aii) n(epos)), for which we only model the first relation using father (P22)
• Fab. as member of Roman tribe (P11491)Fabia (Q3538791)
• Caesar as Roman cognomen (P2365)Caesar (Q1025414)

With this in mind, a few caveats:

• Cognomen isn't mandatory ; some figures i.e. families did not had one.
• The use of the praenomen slowly wane and by Late Antiquity we only find it attested for the old aristocratic families of Rome.
• During the Empire, it became common to agregate names as part of heritage. Some figures can boast of several praenomina, nomina and cognomina, like Marcus Calpurnius Longus (Q12286091).
• Julius Caesar (Q1048) is an exceptionnaly well known individual for Antiquity standards. For most other figures, one or more of the above-listed element are unknown to us.

Items related to Ancient Rome would generally have time period (P2348) with value Roman Republic (Q17167) or Roman Empire (Q2277).

• Identifiers: Amphi-Theatrum ID (P5633); Theatrum ID (P5634)

• editions of ancient texts with bitext: see Menander, Volume I (Q105702581) and Menander, Volume II (Q105702691)

• Wikidata:WikiProject Names/lists/Roman praenomen

• Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome/stemmata
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome/stemmata/Iulii Caesares et al.

• Wikidata:WikiProject Ancient Rome/errors

• WikiProject Ancient Rome/numbers/people/by property
• WikiProject Ancient Rome/numbers/people/by sitelink

• Wikidata:WikiProject Names/reports/Romans without P2358

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