Welcome to DataCons
Introduction
The Digital Database of Late Roman Consular Dates, or simply ‘DataCons’, emerged from a four-year doctoral project at the Department of History, King’s College London. This project received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP). Further support for its digital implementation was provided by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College, with the KCL Central IT Cloud Department kindly providing ongoing hosting services.Its primary scope is to serve users by providing a complete, easily upgradable and easily searchable database of documents dated by late Roman consuls—an ever-expanding body of material that traditional paper publications find challenging to maintain cohesively. In doing so, it intends to support research on and with late-antique papyrological and epigraphical documents, helping to address issues in the realms of late Roman history and its ancillary disciplines, including papyrology, epigraphy and palaeography. Besides this, the ultimate mission of the database is to offer and support quantitative and data-driven research in the field, integrating and combining geospatial modelling and statistical analysis. Find out more about the project
DataCons aims at collecting systematically all the consular material being discovered and published worldwide. At present, it incorporates 1194 documents written in 2 languages, from 12 regions and divided into 12 classes and 133 sub-classes of material.
Currently, the project makes available the body of material dating from CE 476 to 541. The project’s most immediate goal, however, is to offer a comprehensive collection of documents covering the period from Diocletian’s accession in 284 to Heraclius’ death in 641.
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