DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12678656
title: Earthquake Connection Indicator (ECI) table for the locations of the cult of Poseidon with earthquake-related epithets in the ancient Aegean Sea region

description: The rationale behind this table is to categorize the spatial attachment of the evidence of the earthquake-related epithets of Poseidon to earthquake proxies in the region of the ancient Aegean Sea.

Attributes

Location

States the location of a findspot of the evidence of an earthquake-related epithet of Poseidon.

Epithet

Identifies a specific earthquake-related epithet of Poseidon at a particular location.

Earthquake_connection_indicator

Each location of the cult of Poseidon with an earthquake-related epithet is attributed with a number from 1 to 3 based on its spatial ties to earthquake proxies. Earthquake proxies consist of active fault lines (Ganas, A., I. A. Oikonomou, and C. Tsimi. 2013. ‘NOAfaults: A Digital Database for Active Faults in Greece’. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 47 (2): 518–30. https://doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11079), and locations of ancient earthquake reports (Guidoboni, Emanuela, Graziano Ferrari, Gabriele Tarabusi, Giulia Sgattoni, Alberto Comastri, Dante Mariotti, Cecilia Ciuccarelli, Maria Giovanna Bianchi, and Gianluca Valensise. 2019. ‘CFTI5Med, the New Release of the Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy and in the Mediterranean Area’. Scientific Data 6 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0091-9; National Geophysical Data Center. 1972. ‘Global Significant Earthquake Database’. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5TD9V7K).

ECI 1: A location with an attested cult of Poseidon with an earthquake-related epithet located more than 5 kilometers from the nearest active fault or an ancient earthquake report.

ECI 2: A location with an attested cult of Poseidon with an earthquake-related epithet located within a 5-kilometer radius from an active fault line.

ECI 3: A location with an attested cult of Poseidon with an earthquake-related epithet located either a) within a 5-kilometer radius from an active fault line with an ancient earthquake report anywhere along the particular fault; or b) within a 5-kilometer radius from an ancient earthquake report itself.

Lat

Latitude

Long

Longitude

DB MAP testimony #

ID number of a testimony of Poseidon with an earthquake-related epithet based on Bonnet C. (dir.), ERC Mapping Ancient Polytheisms 741182 (DB MAP), Toulouse 2017-2023: https://base-map-polytheisms.huma-num.fr. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34847/nkl.1e19sne6.

PHI ID

IDs of inscriptions mentioning Poseidon with an earthquake-related epithet from the Searchable Greek Inscriptions (PHI, https://inscriptions.packhum.org/) as listed in the Greek Inscriptions in Space and Time dataset (GIST, Kaše, Vojtěch, Petra Heřmánková, and Adéla Sobotková. 2023. ‘GIST’. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10139110.). To search the ID at PHI, put the number at the end of the URL in the following format https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/32602.

Thely

Indicates whether the evidence is listed in the book Thély, Ludovic. 2016. Les Grecs face aux catastrophes naturelles: savoirs, histoire, mémoire. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome : BEFAR. Athènes, Paris: École française ; diffusion De Boccard.