Intercultural Naming

At All Times, the Choice of Personal Names

may convey information both on the culture of origin and of the culture that received migrants or to which other ethnic minorities were exposed. Roman citizenship status is uniquely reflected in the Roman naming formulae, most typically the tria nomina (‘three names’). Such naming formulae often convey information on the patron who sponsored Roman citizenship, whether he was the former master who released his slave, the governor of a province or the emperor himself. The systematic study of names allows us to reconstruct major political and cultural developments in the various provinces of the Roman Empire

Publications on Gaulish and Galatian provinces explaining the methodology:

‘Cover Names’ and Nomenclature in Late Roman Gaul. The Evidence of the Bordelaise Poet Ausonius. With contributions by Jürgen Zeidler. First published online by Katharine Keats-Rohan, Unit for Prosopographical Research (UPR, then Prosopographical Research Centre, PRC), Linacre College, Oxford 2003. (58 pp.). Then republished as NIO-GaRo 2003.3. Now open access on this website.

with Jürgen Zeidler: Acculturation des noms de personne et continuités régionales ‘cachées’: l’exemple des Decknamen dans l’anthroponymie gallo-romaine et la genèse du Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik (‘Acculturation of Personal Names and Regional Continuity ‘under Cover’: the Example of the ‘Cover Names’ in Gallo-Roman Anthroponomy and the Genesis of the Network for Intercultural Onomastics’). In: Rivista Italiana di Onomastica (RIOn) 11.1, 2005, 29-54.

with Jürgen Zeidler: Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik. The Genesis of the Network for Intercultural Onomastics and Some Trier-Based Projects on Historical Anthroponomy in Zones of Cultural Contact. In: Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik, Gallorömische Abteilung (NIO-Ga-Ro) 2005.3 [Feb. 2006]. Open access: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=21749.

Keltische Personennamen und keltische Personennamentraditionen im römischen Galatien. Mit einer Fallstudie zu den Namen der Mitglieder des galatischen Koinons unter Nerva (I.Ankara I 8, 98 n.Chr.) (Celtic Personal Names and Celtic Personal Naming Traditions in Roman Galatia. With a Case Study on the Names of the Members of the Galatian Koinon under Nerva [I.Ankara I 8, 98 BCE), in Lothar Willms (ed.), Interkulturalität in der Antike und darüber hinaus. Die Kelten zwischen Etruskern, Römern, Griechen, Germanen und Modernen, ca. 2021.

Selection of further publications on naming in Galatia in central Anatolia:

Galatische Legionäre in Ägypten: die Konstituierung der legio XXII Deiotariana in der frühen Kaiserzeit. Bärbel Kramer zum Geburtstag gewidmet (‘Galatian legionarii in Egypt: the Constitution of the legio XXII Deiotariana in the Early Empire’). In: Tyche 23, 2008 [Nov. 2009], 21-46. Free download: http://tyche-journal.at/tyche/index.php/tyche/article/view/622/739

Intercultural Anthroponomy in Hellenistic and Roman Galatia. With Maps Drawn by Michael Grün and April Ross. In: Gephyra 9, 2012, 51-68. Open access: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/gephyra/issue/18377

Romanisierung und keltisches Substrat im hadrianischen Ankyra im Spiegel der Gedenkinschrift für Lateinia Kleopatra (Bosch 117 = Mitchell/French, I.Ankara I 81) (Romanization and Celtic Substratum in Ancyra under Hadrian, as Mirrored in the Commemorative Inscription for Latinia Cleopatra). In: ZPE 185, 2013, 171-184.

Histoire par les noms in the Heartland of Galatia (3rd Century BC–AD 3rd Century). In: Robert Parker (ed.): Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, Oxford 2013 (Proceedings of the British Academy 191), 79-106.

Neue Forschungen zum Kaiserkult in Galatien. Edition der Priester-Inschriften des Ankyraner Sebasteions (Dittenberger II 1903/70, 533 = Bosch 51) und Revision der frühen Provinzialgeschichte (‘New Research on the Imperial Cult in Galatia. Edition of the Priest-Inscriptions of the Ancyran Sebasteion [OGIS II 533 = Bosch 51] and Revision of the Early Provincial History’). In: Joseph Fischer (ed.): Der Beitrag Kleinasiens zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte der griechisch-römischen Antike, Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums, Wien, 3.-5. November 2010 (Österr. Ak. d. Wiss., Phil.-hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 469), Vienna 2014, 35-73.

Vier Gesandte des Königs Deiotaros in Rom (45 v.Chr.). Einblicke in den galatischen Hof der späthellenistischen Zeit auf onomastischer Grundlage (‘Four Ambassadors of King Deiotaros in Rome, 45 BC. Insights into the Galatian Court during the Late-Hellenistic Period Based on Onomastic Evidence’). In: Philia 1, 2014 (2015), 1-13. Summary and bibliography on publisher’s website: http://www.philiajournal.com/index.php/en/archive/volume-1?id=24. Free download.