Title for the dataset: 
Dataset_Inscripciones_Religiosas_Baetica_Redes_VFINAL_20260513_JCLG

Supporting data for the research article: “Esclavitud y dependencia en las manifestaciones religiosas de la Bética: una aproximación desde la teoría de redes”

Author: 
José Carlos López-Gómez
joslopez@uma.es
Universidad de Málaga

Description: This repository contains the dataset supporting the quantitative network analysis presented in the article, which examines the relationships between dedicants and gods in the religious epigraphy of the Roman province of Baetica. Particular attention is paid to slavery, dependence, gender, and socio-juridical status as categories for exploring patterns of religious interaction among different groups of devotees.

The dataset consists of a table of 364 inscriptions from Baetica in which one or more divinities are mentioned. It records information on the inscriptions, the deities mentioned, the dedicants involved, their classification according to the categories used in the article, and the locality where each inscription was found.

In addition to the raw data, the file contains three further sheets with the numerical matrices used for the network analyses. These matrices were generated in Excel through a series of pivot tables and subsequently imported into Visone 2.28, a free software package for network analysis, in order to produce the network visualisations and calculations. They correspond to two one-mode networks, applied respectively to divinities and dedicants, and one two-mode network connecting dedicants and deities.

Acknowledgement of funding: 
This paper is the product of the synergy between three different projects: Religious Networks in the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity (B1-2022_08), funded by the University of Málaga; Religión: el Individuo y la Communitas (RICO) (PID2020-117176GB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; and Redes de propagación del cristianismo en la Bética tardoantigua (ss.IV-VII): un análisis de multiconectividad territorial (PRY136/25), funded by the Centro de Estudios Andaluces (CENTRA).


=============Data and Method=================================
The data was collected from epigraphic datasets (such as CIL, Hispania Epigraphica online or Clauss Slaby)

=============Data and file overview=================================
	
VARIABLES/COLUMNS LIST OF EXCEL FILE:

●	Code: Randomised number for each inscription  
●	Theonym/s: name(s) of the deity or deities mentioned in the inscription
●	Text of the Inscription
●	Institutions: institutions or collective dedicators involved in the dedication, where applicable
●	Dedicant: name(s) of the individual(s) who commissioned or made the dedication
●	Other engaged individuals: other individuals referred to in the inscription who were not the main dedicants
●	Status (Network): commissioner of the inscription who can belong to the following categories: Institución cívica, Incertus, Magistrado, Ingenuus, Gobernador, Ingenua, Libertus (Aug.), Ingenuus / Ingenua, Libertus publicus, Libertus, Incerta, Servus, Serva, Liberta, Collegium, Incertus / Incerta, Imperator, Servus publicus, Libertus / Liberta, Libertus Caesaris, Servus Augusti. These categories are fully explained in the research article.
●	Site's ancient name: name of the ancient site where the inscription was found
●	Locality: name of the modern locality where the inscription was found

===================Terms of reuse============================================

Data can be reused using free software such as Visone, Version 2.28, which was used to carry out the network analyses presented in this research. The dataset can also be uploaded to and used in any other network analysis software compatible with tabular data.

Credits: José Carlos López Gómez