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You can use the family tree to search for a particular name / people with a particular name (using either TM's stable identifiers, the TM Nam ID or TM Per ID , or by typing in a name), or for sets of people with a particular name, patronymic and/or metronymic.

Extra search options are provided in order to look for name compounds and / or elements.

To search for specific attestations of names, please use the advanced search form for TM Ref.

To search for names in Latin inscriptions (select coverage), please visit our Names in the ancient world page

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CAUTION: when searching for popular compounds or gods such as 'Tȝ-šr.t-' or 'Horos', it may take quite some time (sometimes up to 1 minute) for the page to reload!
You can select a compound or principal element by clicking on the icon next to each field. This will call up a list of all possible options, where you can click on the compound or element and it will be filled in automatically.
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Please select a name compound from the list below by clicking on it (wildcards are added automatically). The first list gives the most common compounds and endings (attested in 20 or more names), where abstraction is made of other elements of the name (e.g. in this list -δωρος also includes those labelled more specifically as 'DN-δωρος', 'PN-δωρος', etc). The second list is an exhaustive overview of all possible categories in TM Nam.

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AN = animal
DN = divine name
GN = geographical name
PN = personal name
RN = royal name

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This field allows you to limit your search to names that contain a particular element. At the moment, this option is limited to a) gods, b) animals, and c) some elements that may be religiously inspired (e.g. 'two brothers'). Please select an element from the list below by clicking on it (wildcards are added automatically).

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"Βῆσις" is a Greek variant of the name "Besis", which is attested 460 times for 325 different individual(s)

☛ for more details on the name variant "Βῆσις" (NamVar level ), click here

☛ for more details on the name "Besis" (Nam level ), click here

☛ for more details on the attestations of "Besis" (Ref level ), click here

☛ for more details on the individuals bearing the name "Besis" (Per level ), click here

Click on an alternative below to relaunch your search with (different) spaces or wildcards.

☛ Click here to search for names that start with "Βῆσις" ('% Βῆσις%' or at the start)

☛ Click here to search for names that end in "Βῆσις" ('%Βῆσις %' or at the end)

☛ Click here to search for names that contain the string "Βῆσις" anywhere ('%Βῆσις%')