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That is largely an artifact of the source data, sadly. I place the dots where they were found, if the dataset has that information, otherwise I georef them back to the "findsite" i…

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And thank you to whomever flagged EDCS-31400647 and EDCS-21700214. The militia militia militia attribution was hilarious, wrong, and has been fixed.

But yes, the runbook in the project gives the llm instructions on how to use the scripts and what to modify. I let Claude code read that and tell it to work on a province. It runs …

The short answer is yes. Successo-Terra has done a lot of work on the preroman history of Italy quite recently. https://www.successoterra.net/en The Vesuvius scrolls have been part…

I also used EDH as ground truth but not directly as a source and link out to it and other sources when I have those links available.

The actual code is here https://github.com/metiscus/roman-names/ and it is licensed under MIT, while the datasets are slightly more restrictive, and mentioned in the repo.

Yeah, I thought about that. The issue is that the date density is poor already and the ranges are pretty broad. Someday I'll give it a try, but the search interface can limit you t…

So most inscriptions are somewhat formulary, and I provide examples to the llm to assist it to find the names. I also have a postprocess blacklist that removes some known cases whe…

so there should be some links when I have the information available. If you link me the entries I'll see what is going on.

Somehow despite writing an essay above, I forgot to mention that the whole codebase and web frontend is on GitHub. For reasons the main dev right now is on a branch, also the brows…

I've contacted a Professor in Europe who was doing research in this area and pointed him to the page. What I genuinely need is someone to spot check a few of the attributions. I ca…

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So the points are georeferenced when the underlying source data is otherwise I georeference them back to the findspot, which tends to cluster many at one point.

Full code and data available at https://github.com/metiscus/roman-names/ The running version on new. is the webapp branch. Eventually I will get it all fixed up.

The map tiles themselves come from the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. Which you can find here. https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/

I am hoping to push a few fixes to the new web interface later today, so if you looked at this and saw anything off, hopefully by COB today I will have the known issues fixed.

Driving home from work one day, I wanted to know how many people we knew the names of who lived during the Roman era. Searching around, I found lists of Consuls and officials, but …

It looks like devicenative "accidentally" deleted their documentation page that was linked from that article. Fortunately someone archived it beforehand. Oops. https://web.archive.…

At least in the states, the postman is almost assuredly doing the end delivery of the mail, and is often given a stack of advert materials to mix into the delivery for a certain de…

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