Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom

<p>The database "Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom" (PNM) is developed as part of the projects "Umformung und Variabilit&auml;t im Korpus alt&auml;gyptischer Personennamen 2055&ndash;1550 v. Chr." and&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Alt&auml;gyptische Titel in amtlichen und famili&auml;ren Kontexten, 2055-1352 v. Chr.&rdquo;. The database includes data on Egyptian Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom personal names, people, written sources, titles, and dossiers of persons attested in various sources.</p> <p>The online version of the database is published at <a href="https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info">https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info</a>. The source code of the web-interface is available at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1418714">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1418714.</a></p> <p>Version 6 covers the timeframe of the Middle Kingdom and the early New Kingdom (from Mentuhotep II to Amenhotep III). It comparison to version 5, it adds 249 persons to the dataset.&nbsp;</p> <p>The release includes the dump of the MySQL database (tested with MariaDB 10.5.29), 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 (<a href="https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/ontology/">https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/ontology/</a>) 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 <a href="https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/sparql">https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/sparql</a>.</p>