This is cool – I'd like a way to click through from a given entry to find out more, appreciate it may not be much, but each one came from somewhere. There's a few in my hometown so just idly interested if they're from somewhere I know about or something that would be new to me.
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#23The map is woefully inaccurate, because it depicts present-day topology.
See e.g. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Peace_of...
From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_European_history
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#24Very cool. I'd like to explore it, but I'm getting a lot of "page unresponsive" and I can't tell if it's a back-end server being swamped, or if it's something else.
My son just graduated with a double major in classics and molecular biology (doing informatics work), so maybe he could help! lol
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#25The map is woefully inaccurate, because it depicts present-day topology. See e.g. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Peace_of... From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_European_history
The map tiles themselves come from the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. Which you can find here.
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#26Could you elaborate on the multi level LLM workflow? Did you set up a benchmark, and you're having a LLM mutate prompts?
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.
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#27> I have Claude And just now I am watching I, Claudius .
Watching?
I just finished reading “I, Claudius” and “Cladius the God” this month. Didn’t know there was a series / movie, would you recommend it?
(I highly recommend the books FWIW, although I prefer the more modern writing style of the Cicero trilogy)
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#28Very nice. Are you using the roman roads which were also on HN a couple of weeks ago?
There's a lot of new roads being mapped in England. Interesting how the inscriptions on the map are often between roads, suggesting an unmapped pathway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622543
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.
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#29Very cool. I'd like to explore it, but I'm getting a lot of "page unresponsive" and I can't tell if it's a back-end server being swamped, or if it's something else. My son just graduated with a double major in classics and molecular biology (doing informatics work), so maybe he could help! lol
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#30Hi, I'm an actual classicist (phd and all), if you wanted to throw any questions my way.
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 can send you a list of the ones I think are the most likely to be good.
1. Laepoca / Laepocus — Piquentum, Venetia et Histria (1–50 AD)
Three family members: two women (Laepoca Regilia, Laepoca Tuia) and a man (Metellus Laepocus). The nomen appears in both feminine and masculine forms in the same inscription, pointing to a
genuine local gentilicium, likely of Istrian or Liburnian origin.
https://new.roman-names.com/#edcs_id=EDCS-04200530 2. Tocernius — Eraclea Veneta, Venetia et Histria (3rd c. AD)
Father (C. Tocernius Hermeros) and son (C. Tocernius Maximianus), the latter a soldier of Legio II Italica. Probably a Venetic name surviving into the imperial period.
https://new.roman-names.com/#edcs_id=EDCS-04200461 3. Laulenia — Thibilis, Numidia
Two sisters, Laulenia Matrona and Laulenia Naxina, daughters of the same Marcus. The name looks Berber/Numidian in origin. (I should note that our pipeline transcribed the nomen as
Lauzenia — the raw EDCS text reads Laulenia, which is probably the correct form.)
https://new.roman-names.com/#edcs_id=EDCS-13500401 4. Kanulanius / Nansinia — Flavia Solva, Noricum
Father (C. Kanulanius Eumitus) and son (C. Kanulanius Nepos, a soldier of Ala III Thracum). The K-spelling may reflect local Celtic orthographic convention. The wife's nomen, Nansinia,
also appears unattested in standard sources and may be a second find in the same inscription.
https://new.roman-names.com/#edcs_id=EDCS-14500644EDCS:
C(aius) Kanulani/us Eumitus / v(ivus) f(ecit) sibi et / Nansiniae / Verecundae con(iugi) / et C(aio) Kanulanio / Nepoti f(ilio) mil(iti) alae III / Thrac(um) an(norum) XXV stip(endiorum) VI / loco et impensa / Anni Festi