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Open Access
|Nov 2025

Abstract

Prosobab is an open access, online prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620–330 BCE) with information on some 21,000 persons attested in 5000 cuneiform tablets. We have extracted all the Prosobab data from a database dump and converted it into two formats that are easily accessible and suitable for social network analysis. First, we provide information on all tablets, persons, and their attestations, along with rich metadata. These files can be used for various data-analytical purposes, including the creation of undirected co-occurrence networks. The second set of files contains edge lists that exhibit directed social relationships between people, such as the ties between creditor and debtor.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.384 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 27, 2025
Accepted on: Oct 2, 2025
Published on: Nov 6, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola, published by Ubiquity Press
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