Humot: A Prosopographical Online Resource for Ancient and Late Antique History

Five years ago, I’ve started to realize a prosopographical research about people who were native in Northern Italy as well as Ancient Near East and they have travelled respectively towards one or another pars Imperii, from 2nd to 7th century CE. I decided to develop this project also in digital format, so thanking to the cooperation with a webmaster (Dr. Lazzari), I have created a website, which is titled “Human Mobility between Oriens and Transpadana 98-604: A Prosopographical Research” (HUMOT). The website is structured into six sections among which a prosopographical database: this part is structured into two different sub-sections, the first one for people north Italian native and the other for Eastern. Each of two parts includes a set of pre-formatted indexes, based on six categories of information (“name”, “textual sources”, “epigraphies”, “time”, “career titles”, “places”), that permits the selection of sub-sets of persons based on various search criteria. Furthermore every sheet is endowed of a tag-system, based on key elements, to improve the search. Every category of two databases is further linked to detailed study or image (name: its biographical sheet; textual sources: scanner copy; epigraphies: scanner corpus; career title: definition and significance; place: GPS localisation and map). This digital solution will allow an uninterrupted update from other primary and secondary sources and continous exchanges with other interested people and scholars.