Online Resources for Ancient Names

Online Resources for Ancient Names,
by Darrell Pursiful

A very useful collection of links to online resources, including:

GENERAL

• Name, Namengebung by D. O. Edzard et al (German; from the Google Book version of Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 9)

AMORITE

• Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts by Herbert Bardwell Huffmon (No online text available)
• Das ammuritische Onomastikon der altbabylonischen Zeit by Michael P. Streck (German; No online text available)

ANATOLIAN (Hittite, Luwian, Palaic, etc.)

• Répertoire onomastique by Marie-Claude Trémouille (Names from records at Hattusha) (French)
• Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language (PDF) by Ilya S. Yakubovich (Includes several tables of onomastic data)

ARAMAIC (including Syriac)

• Pagan Traces in Syriac Christian Onomastica (PDF) by Amir Harrak

AKKADIAN (Assyrian and Babylonian)

• The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by Heather D. Baker (Updates to the PNA, of which no online text is available)
• Studies in Third Millennium Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names (Google Books) by Robert A. Di Vito
• Early Babylonian Personal Names (Google Books) by Hermann Ranke
• Late Old Babylonian Personal Names Index by Seth Richardson
• Index of Late Old Babylonian Personal Names (Check “guest,” then “login”)
• Old Babylonian Personal Names (PDF) by Martin Stol
• Assyrian Personal Names by Knut L. Tallqvist

CANAANITE (including Ammonite, Punic, Ugaritic, etc.)

• Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions (Google Books) by Frank L. Benz
• The Ammonite Onomasticon (PDF) by M. O’Connor

CELTIC (Early British, Celtiberian, Gaulish, etc.)

• Ancient Celtic Languages: Celtiberian (Provides a short list of Celtiberian names)
• The First Thousand Years of British Names by Heather Rose Jones (Society for Creative Anachronism)
• Name Constructions in Gaulish by Heather Rose Jones (Society for Creative Anachronism)

EGYPTIAN (including Coptic)

• Oriental Institute Demotic Ostraca Online (Click “guest,” then “login”)
• Prosopographia Ptolemaica (Names from Egypt from 300–30 BC)
• Die ägyptischen Personennamen (link to PDF) by Hermann Ranke (German)
• Onomasticon Oasiticum (PDF) by R. P. Salomons and K. A. Worp (Coptic names from the Theban oasis in Greco-Roman times)

ELAMITE

• Elamite Onomastics (PDF) by Ran Zadok

ETRUSCAN

• Un Componente anatolico en la onomástica etrusca (PDF) by S. Pérez Orozco (Spanish)

GREEK

• The People of the Tablets by John Chadwick (Chapter 4 of The Mycenaean World)
• The Mycenaean personal name ke-do-jo by Elena Džukeska
• The Suffix -υλο/α- in the Mycenaean Personal Names (PDF) by Petar Hr. Ilievski
• A Prosopographical Study of Scribal Hand 103, Methods, Aims and Problems by Hedvig Landenius-Enegren (PDF) (Mycenaean names from Knossos)
• Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (Catalogs names from Ancient times through the Middle Ages)

HEBREW

• Jewish Personal Names in Some Non-literary Sources by Gerard Mussies (From the Google Books version of Studies in Early Jewish Epigraphy)
• Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs (PDF) by Daniel D. Stuhlman

HURRIAN

• Nuzi Personal Names by Ignace J. Gelb, Pierre M. Purves, and Allan A. MacRae. (No online text available)
• Hurrian and Hurrian Personal Names from Mari (PDF) by Jack M. Sasson

LATIN (and related languages: Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, etc.)

• Faliscan Personal Names (PDF) by Wolfgang D. C. de Melo (Includes a few examples of Etruscan, Oscan, and Umbrian names as well)
• A Simple Guide to Roman Naming Practices by Sara L. Friedemann (Society of Creative Anachronism)
• Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (Names from Roman North Africa)
• Roman Names by Harold Whetstone Johnston and Mary Johnston
• Roman Names (From a Roman military re-enactment group)
• Roman Naming Conventions in the Late Roman Republic
• Vindolanda Tablets Online: Names (Names from Roman Britain)

PERSIAN (including Avestan, Sogdian, etc.)

• Sogdian Personal Names in Chinese Sources by Y. Yoshida
• Avestan Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
• Achaemenid Period Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
• Parthian Period Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt
• Sassanian Period Personal Names by Rüdiger Schmitt

SUMERIAN

• Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (Click on “Onomastics”)
• List of Personal Names from the Temple School of Nippur (Google Books) by Edward Chiera
• Studies in Third Millennium Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names (Google Books) by Robert A. Di Vito
• Observations on the Sumerian Personal Names in Ebla Sources and on the Onomasticon of Mari and Kish (PDF) by Piotr Steinkeller

THRACIAN

• The Language of the Thracians by Ivan Duridanov (Provides examples of Thracian toponyms, personal names, tribal names, and names of deities. Caveat: The writer does not provide dates or provenance for the names he lists)

VASCONIC (Aquitanian, Iberian, Proto-Basque)

• The Ascoli Inscription (Latin roster of Iberian cavalry soldiers)
• Major Iberian Personal Names Compound Bases by Jesús Rodríguez Ramos
• Names Identified from Roman-Era Aquitanian Stones by Karen Larsdatter