Of the included networks (listed below), this entry describes 'Tambs_3partite_casestudy.gexf'. --> The file 'Tambs_3partite_casestudy.gexf' holds a directed 3-partite network model of people and places mentioned in 36 dated texts from…
Construction
To build these networks, the following steps were taken:
- lists of people attested in Zenon papyri from the online Trismegistos databases (https://www.trismegistos.org/) were extracted with F. Alvares Freire's “attestation per document” python webscraper (www.github.com/fernandaalvaf/Attestation-per-Document.) in 2021
- the outputs were cleaned and relevant information integrated into the project's relational database (MS Access)
- next, the ancient texts were read and text publications consulted for the purpose of extending and enriching the dataset through methods of close reading and literature review.
- for modelling the networks, relevant data were queried, exported and imported to Gephi (https://gephi.org/) for network analysis and visualisation
- Trismegistos: https://www.trismegistos.org/
- Text publications of the 36 texts that make up the case study
Whereas various networks are presented in the repository (see description above), network characteristics here describe the 3-partite network of people and places mentioned in the 36 texts from the Zenon archive that made up the case study (i.e. model 'Tambs_3partite_casestudy', visualised as 'Tambs_Fig4').