Roman Name Attestations
Interactive map and searchable database of ~250,000 Roman Empire inscriptions with AI-extracted personal name data.
How the 6.0 was reached
- Quality of output6/10
Independent evaluation against LIRE v3.0 confirms roughly 80-85% name extraction accuracy; useful but error-prone. academia.edu
- Ease of use7/10
Web search and browse interface with filters by name, province and date; no install needed. new.roman-names.com
- Pricing valuen/a
no evidence found
- API and integration quality6/10
API endpoints for search, clusters and name statistics, plus CSV and JSON export; vendor-stated only. new.roman-names.com
- Solves the problem it claims to solve5/10
Cross-referenced with LIRE, EDH and Trismegistos, but only the vendor's own description supports the claim. new.roman-names.com
6.0/10 is the mean of the 4 criteria that apply. Scored on the five-criteria rubric v1, 29 September 2026. How scoring works
Pricing
- Full map access
- Search and browse interface
- CSV and JSON export
- Name, province, and date filters
Key Features
- Interactive map of ~250,000 Roman inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS)
- AI pipeline extracts praenomen, nomen, cognomen, status, and gender per individual
- Search and browse interface with CSV/JSON export
- Inscription translations and AI-generated summaries where available
- Community flagging system to report extraction errors
- Filters by gender, confidence level, date range, deity/imperial status
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Massive dataset — a quarter-million inscriptions in one queryable interface
- Completely free with open CC BY 4.0 derived data
- AI enrichment saves researchers enormous manual effort
- Export to CSV/JSON makes it usable in downstream analysis
Cons
- Name extraction accuracy is only 80–85%, so errors are common in bulk use
- Extremely niche — useful almost exclusively to classicists and ancient historians
- No API documented; data access is through UI export only
- Hosted on a subdomain ('new.') suggesting the project is still in transition
Roman Name Attestations is a genuinely impressive open research tool that combines a large epigraphic corpus with an AI extraction pipeline to make Roman prosopography accessible at scale. For classicists, historians, or digital humanities researchers working on the Roman world, it fills a real gap. The 80–85% accuracy caveat matters for precise scholarly work, but the flagging system and free CSV export make it a solid starting point.
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