Coverage of toponym attestations, mainly for Egypt and the Nile Valley (but see Latin epigraphy below)
Trismegistos Places consists of several tables, but the most important distinction is that between TM Geo and TM Georef. TM Geo is a table of places. Its coverage is hard to estimate, as there is not a finite number of places: new entries will be added when texts from places previously not attested in the database are added (see the coverage of Trismegistos Texts), or when the texts themselves refer to localities that were previously not included in the database.
For TM Georef, the database with attestations of the places in the ancient sources, the following tables provide estimations of the current coverage for published documents.
800 BC - AD 800
| Greek papyrology |
almost 100% |
| Greek epigraphy |
for Egypt almost 100%; for elsewhere almost nothing |
| Latin papyrology |
almost 100% |
| Latin epigraphy |
for Egypt almost 100%; for elsewhere ca. 90% |
| Demotic papyrology and epigraphy |
almost 100% |
| Hieroglyphic and hieratic papyrology |
almost nothing |
| Hieroglyphic and hieratic epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Coptic papyrology |
almost nothing |
| Coptic epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Aramaic papyrology and epigraphy |
ca. 95% |
| Meroitic epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Old Nubian papyrology and epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Arabic papyrology |
almost nothing |
Before 800 BC
| Hieroglyphic and hieratic papyrology |
almost nothing |
| Hieroglyphic and hieratic epigraphy |
almost nothing |
After AD 800
| Greek papyrology and epigraphy |
almost 100% |
| Old Nubian papyrology and epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Coptic papyrology |
almost nothing |
| Coptic epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Arabic papyrology |
almost nothing |
| Arabic epigraphy |
almost nothing |
| Hebrew material (e.g. Geniza) |
almost nothing |
For
unpublished documents, the coverage is again almost nothing, as we wait for the publications of the text before adding references.
