Mapping Ancient Polytheisms

The MAP database (DB MAP) is an outcome of the ERC Advanced Grant Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency (741182) which took place between October 2017 and June 2023 and will be extended through an international scientific network. The MAP database is available in full open access at the following address: : https://base-map-polytheisms.huma-num.fr/ The DB MAP is a relational database in SQL (Structured Query Language) structured around 3 main tables (Source, Testimony, Element) and a series of secondary tables, following an architecture that responds to the research enquiry into divine onomastics. MAP studies the divine powers of the Greek and Semitic worlds through a collection of their appellations (names, epithets, titles and other qualifications), understood as “onomastic sequences”. The DB MAP collects divine names from the Greek world in its widest extension and from the Western Semitic world (Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, Hebrew) in a large Mediterranean framework and over a long period of time, from around 1000 BCE to 400 CE.