Attested placeNames in a Work

The attestations of placeNames should be marked as in the example below

<ab> ምዕራፍ፡፱። ወእምዝ፡ ዓደወ፡ ማር፡ ገላውዴዎስ፡
ማዕዶተ፡ ክልኤቱ፡ አፍላግ፡ መንገለ፡ ምድረ፡
<placeName ref="LOC5597Sawa" notBefore="1540" notAfter="1559">ሼዋ፡</placeName>
እመንገለ፡ምድረ፡
<placeName ref="LOC5932Tegray" notBefore="1540" notAfter="1559">ትግራይ፡</placeName>
 ከመ፡ ይርአይ፡ መርዔቶ፡ bእለ፡ ህየ፡ በጽድቅ፡ ወይዋሄ፡ cሕዝቦ፡ በርትዕ። ወበጽሐ፡</ab>

to choose which ID to use consider the following:

• if it is a place of interest for Ethiopian studies or attested in Ethiopia, then use one of our internal IDs or create a new record if none is yet available

• if it is an ancient place but not in Ethiopia, like Jordan, Rome, etc. then search pleaides and use a Pleiades ID prefixed with pleaides: e.g. for Jordan River use plaeides:687932

• if it is an ancient place not of our interest and not relevant for Pleiades, check in Wikidata and enter the item ID (starting with Q)

you can also add a @resp with the ID of one of our person records or editors and a @source with a pointer to the ID assigned to a <bibl>↗ in the file as shown here .

Certainty and uncertainty

It is not always possible to be so sure as to give one identification. The following examples are from the encoding of the text of RIE 277. In the first example, the main identification in @ref is attributed to Salt by adding in @resp the id of the corresponding bibliographical reference in the file. Alternative identifications are given with the <certainty>↗ element inside <placeName>↗ using @resp to point to the author of that identification and @assertedValue for the alternative identification.

  <placeName ref="LOC6850Takkaze" cert="low" resp="#salt">
  <certainty locus="value" match="../@ref" assertedValue="pleiades:727172" resp="#LIT5019MonumentumAdulitanum2"></certainty>
  <certainty locus="value" match="../@ref" assertedValue="LOC4560Marab" resp="#Fauvelle-Aymar"></certainty>
  Νείλου
  </placeName>

However, one can be much more precise in this respect and use as in the following example, the <desc>↗ element inside <certainty>↗, or avoid entirely to provide an alternative identification.

  <placeName ref="ETH1085Aggabe" xml:id="aggabe">
        <certainty locus="value" match="../@ref" resp="#salt">
             <desc><quote>Angabet or Andabet in Begemder</quote><ref target="https://recogito.pelagios.org/document/t7e6q1bznco148#bfaa74d2-f350-4f3e-a072-019a9c811eab">
            <q>Andabet</q>on Ludolf map (1683) south of<q>Axum</q></ref></desc>
        </certainty>
         <certainty locus="value" match="../@ref" resp="#Huntingford">
              <desc><quote> a place called Angäba in the chiefdom of Sedya between
                ʿAdwa and the river Bäläsa NW of Entäṣĕw; Angabĕ may also be the same as the Angao of DAE 9.</quote></desc>
        </certainty>
        <certainty locus="value" match="../@ref" resp="#DAE">
               <desc>Angabo in DAE 9</desc>
        </certainty>
        <certainty locus="value" match="../@ref" resp="#dillmann">
                <desc>Angot a sud du Tigré</desc>
        </certainty>
  Ἀγγαβὲ
</placeName>

Ethnonyms, which have identifiers inherited from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Indexes prefixed with ETH can be used as well. If you are annotating an occurrence of the name of a people or group, you can use these in <persName>↗, while meeting an occurrence of a reference to the land of a certain people, you may use <placeName>↗.

For an example of use as "land of" see the following example from Monumentum Adulitanum.

               <placeName ref="ETH1085Aggabe" xml:id="aggabe"></placeName> 
            

For an example of use as "people" see the following example from ʾAksum Ṣǝyon.

               <persName ref="ETH1973Oromo">Oromo</persName>