Places (GEOREF)
General issues
The GEOREF database contains attestations of ancient toponyms in literary and documentary sources. For the time being, only the toponyms from Egypt, Sudan, the United Kingdom and Ireland have been entered systematically.
As an intermediary database, GEOREF draws in information from the texts and places databases through the TM_id (or for authors the Authorwork_id) and the GEO_ID. It adds only limited information specific to the attestation.
Specific GEOREF information
The form and location of the attestation
The field 'Name' contains the name as it occurs in the source in the original script (Greek, Latin, Coptic) or in transcription (Egyptian, Arabic), including all the diacritics such as brackets and uncertainty dots. Where necessary, a part of the context is added to make the construction clear. The field 'Name clean' contains the name as spelled in that specific source, but in the nominative case and without brackets or dots, to facilitate searching and sorting.
The information on section, column and line number refers to the location of the name as written in 'Name clean' (but not taking any definite article into account). If a toponym occurs twice in a single line, two Georef cards are made.
Specific topographic information
If the toponym is ascribed in the attestation to a certain region or district, this is specified in the field 'Administrative situation'. If the place attestation is e.g. explicitly called a village or a city, this information is listed in the field 'Status'.
Other information
In the field 'Detail' a translation can be given of the passage involved or other comments and tag words can be added. The field 'Bibliography' contains bibliographical references explicitly discussing that specific passage or providing a new reading. In the field 'Note' obsolete readings are listed and other remarks can be made.
Full text
Where possible, a link to the full text in papyrological or epigraphic databases is provided. For texts in the Papyrological Navigator, a scraped version is often added.