Social Networks of Prosobab

Prosobab is an open access, online prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620–330 BCE) with information on some 21,000 persons attested in 5000 cuneiform tablets. We have extracted all the Prosobab data from a database dump and converted it into two formats that are easily accessible and suitable for social network analysis. First, we provide information on all tablets, persons, and their attestations, along with rich metadata. These files can be used for various data-analytical purposes, including the creation of undirected co-occurrence networks. The second set of files contains edge lists that exhibit directed social relationships between people, such as the ties between creditor and debtor.