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Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths.
An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature.

Manual for the correct use and reading of the Authors section of PAThs database

A detailed technical description of database schema is published at schema/authors.

Ref.: paths.authors

ID

  • The unique stable identifier of each author. The identifier is a sequential integer provided by the database engine.
  • DB id: id

NAME

  • The english form of the name of the author
  • DB id: name

NAME IN COPTIC

  • The Coptic version of te name of the author
  • DB id: copticname

NAME IN GREEK

  • The Greek version of te name of the author
  • DB id: greekname

VIAF ID

TITLE

  • The possible title which traditionally is connected to the author, e.g.: archbishop, pope, archimandrite.
  • DB id: title

CMCL NAME

  • This is a legacy information not published on the Atlas. It stores the Italian form of the author’s name as recorded in the CMCL database
  • DB id: cmclname

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE “AUTHOR”

  • A short biographical note of the author
  • DB id: bio

CHRONOLOGY

  • If known, the full chronoly of the author
  • DB id: chronology

EPISCOPAL SEE

  • If known the PATh Place where the author served as a bishop.
  • DB id: episcopalsee

Editorial information

EDITORS

  • Initials of the person(s) responsible for the record.
  • DB id: editors

STATUS

  • If the record has been fully compiled the status is set to complete; if it is under study the status is set to in-progress. If the status is blank it means that the provided information are incomplete, not reliable and liable to change in the future.
  • DB id: status

Bibliography

For each place multiple instances of the following group of fields can be filed, each one describing a bibliographic reference.

These fields are not part of the places table but of the m_biblio table.

SHORT REFERENCE

  • Short reference of the bibliographic item as stored in biblio table
  • DB id: paths__m_biblio.short

SPECIFIC DETAILS

  • Pages of the publication if not precised in the reference
  • DB id: paths__m_biblio.details

DETAILS ABOUT IMAGES

  • Pages or figures containing reproductions of (part[s] of) the manuscript
  • DB id: paths__m_biblio.images