Introducing the Digital Platform Sylloge Inscriptionum Religionis Africae Romanae (SIRAR)

This article presents the aims, structure, and analytical potential of SIRAR (Sylloge Inscriptionum Religionis Africae Romanae), an open-access digital platform designed to catalog and analyze religious inscriptions from Roman Africa. Drawing on a corpus of nearly 5,800 inscriptions, the article explores divine onomastics – both theonyms and epithets – through quantitative, qualitative, and network-based methodologies. Particular attention is given to the interplay between normativity and creativity in the construction of divine names, and to the linguistic and cultural diversity of religious expressions across Neo-Punic, Greek, and Latin contexts. The study reveals polytheistic patterns of divine naming practices, their geographic and ritual distribution, and the socio-religious significance of metahuman agents in the epigraphic landscape of North African Roman provinces.