Prosobab: Prosopography of Babylonia (ca. 620-330 BCE), An Online Database

 [First posted in AWOL 4 July 2019, updated 13 October 2022]

Prosobab: Prosopography of Babylonia (ca. 620-330 BCE), An Online Database

Prosobab is an open access database of the recorded inhabitants of Babylonia between c. 620 and 330 BCE. Its main focus is on individuals who lived in southern Mesopotamia under Persian rule (539-330 BCE), but it also includes the preceding period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in an attempt to contextualize their lives and those of their family members. In addition to person data, Prosobab collects information on the texts and archives in which the individuals are recorded. The database is developed in the framework of the ERC project Persia and Babylonia at Leiden University and is intended for everybody with an interest in Babylonian history or the Persian Empire.

Prosobab covers the following cuneiform archives at present (5,127 texts):

City	Archive
Babylon	Balāṭu/Mušallim-Bēl
	Bēl-ušallim//Ingallēa
	Dullupu
	Ea-eppēš-ilī A
	Ea-eppēš-ilī B
	Egibi Nūr-Sîn
	Esagilāya A
	Esagilāya B
	Gahal
	Mardonios
	Nappāhu
	Rabâ-ša-Ninurta
	Sîn-ilī
	Šangû-Ninurta
	Šumāya
	Šumu-iddin/Aplāya
Borsippa	Atkuppu
	Balāṭu slave of Rēmūt-Bēl
	Ea-ilūtu-bāni
	Ibnāya A
	Ibnāya B-C-D
	Ilia A+B
	Ilia D
	Ilia E
	Ilšu-abūšu A
	Ilšu-abūšu B
	Inṣabtu
	Rē’i-alpi
Nippur	Carian archive
	Murašû (incomplete)
Sippar	Iššar-tarībi
	Ṣāhit-ginê A
	Šangû-Šamaš A
Ur	Damqia
	Gallābu
	Imbia
	Nidinti-Ea
	Sîn-ilī
	Sîn-uballiṭ
Uruk	Sîn-nāṣir
	Šamšēa
	Atû and Sîn-tabni

NB: coverage of the Murašû archive is incomplete. 370 texts have been entered so far (BE 9, BE 10 and Stolper 1985). The attestations have not yet been collapsed into unique historical indivuals. Searches for persons attested in these texts should be performed in the Attestation column.

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