SOCIETÀ, AMMINISTRAZIONE ED ECONOMIA NELLA BABILONIA DI ETÀ CASSITA: UN PROGETTO DI DIGITAL PROSOPOGRAPHY

Abstract

The surviving archival records from Kassite Babylonia (14th-13th centuries BC) offer a glimpse into the
complex network of interactions resulting from the activities managed by the main economic and administrative
institutions. Thousands of people appear in the documents, although in most cases we only know
their names – rarely their patronymic and/or profession. The project presented in this paper aims at carrying
out a prosopographical study in order to define the actors’ “functional” and “behavioral” profiles on the
basis of the contexts in which they were active and the interactions they had with each other. To this aim, a
prosopographical database has been designed to collect, organize, and query the prosopographical data and
extract significant knowledge through data visualization and statistical analyses.