DIGITAL HUMANITIES DATABASE TRACKER
Center for Classical and Medieval Studies, Peking University
There are a myriad of ways to engage with materials related to the study of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, largely construed. What the digital humanities provide is an easily accessible way for scholars and teams to introduce different ways of thinking about and using data, texts, and evidence.
The purpose of this list is to keep track of new digital humanities databases and projects while becoming acquainted with those that have been created for a while, but not necessarily familiar to all scholars and students across disciplines. There are already some lists on digital sources that can be readily accessible, but not all of the sources they cite are readily accessible (PAYWALL!!), nor would all of them be consistently updated to include new and exciting projects with the potential to transform how we study the ancient Mediterranean World and Europe in general. Databases provided by major publishers or organizations also tend to be prohibitively expensive. They often come in the form of monetizable repositories for proprietary materials, and not necessarily representative of new ideas and attempts to make sense of data and evidence.
If you find a digital humanities project or database – not just digitized corpus but also renderings, representations, analyses, annotations of texts, objects, sites, information, etc. – please add to the list, so that we will have a running and current knowledge of what is going on in the increasingly revolutionary digitized space of the humanities. WCY 20220405
PORTALS
(TM) Trismegistos
Trismegistos was conceived in 2004 when Mark Depauw was granted a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung to set up his own research team at a German university, in this case Cologne. The project Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt wanted to investigate language shifts in relation to cultural identity, by setting up an online database of Graeco-Roman papyrological material in Egyptian scripts parallel to and in close cooperation with the existing tools of Greek papyrology (the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten [HGV] and its literary counterpart, the Leuven Database of Ancient Books [LDAB]
ARACHNE
iDAI.objects arachne ist die zentrale Objektdatenbank des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI) und des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln. Dies gilt einerseits für den Bereich der seit langem bestehenden analogen Dokumentationsbestände, die teilweise zerfallsbedroht und immer noch weitestgehend unerschlossen sind: hier wird aktive digitale Erschließung betrieben. Es gilt aber andererseits auch für den Bereich der immer weiter zunehmenden Neuproduktion digitaler Objekt- und Bilddaten: hier gilt eine niedrigstschwellig vorgehende Strukturierung, die auf der Ebene maschinenlesbarer Metadaten Strategien des Semantic Web verwendet. Alle digitalisierten, bildlichen und textuellen Objektinformationen werden langzeitgesichert und weltweit online gehalten.
LUX: Yale's Cultural Heritage IT Collaboration
LUX is a transformative new platform that provides access to millions of records for objects, people, places, concepts, and events represented in Yale’s rich cultural heritage collections. Find and connect with the cultural heritage collections across Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries in new ways and all in one place.
https://lux.collections.yale.edu
LITERARY SOURCES AND TRANSLATIONS
DIGITAL FRAGMENTA HISTORICORUM GRAECORUM
The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) is the digital edition of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) produced by Monica Berti at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. The FHG consists of a survey of excerpts from many different sources pertaining to 636 ancient Greek fragmentary historians. Excluding the first volume, authors are chronologically distributed and cover a period of time from the 6th century BC through the 7th century CE. Fragments are numbered sequentially and arranged by works and book numbers, when these pieces of information are available in the source texts preserving the fragments. Almost every Greek fragment is translated or summarized into Latin. The Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance allows to search correspondences among authors published in the FHG, the FGrHist, and the BNJ.
Perseus Digital Library
Since planning began in 1985, the Perseus Digital Library Project has explored what happens when libraries move online. Two decades later, as new forms of publication emerge and millions of books become digital, this question is more pressing than ever. Perseus is a practical experiment in which we explore possibilities and challenges of digital collections in a networked world. For the mission of Perseus and its current research, see here. Perseus maintains a web site that showcases collections and services developed as a part of our research efforts over the years. The code for the digital library system and many of the collections that we have developed are now available. For more information, please go here. Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. We are applying what we have learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond. We have studied many problems over the past two decades, but our current research centers on personalization: organizing what you see to meet your needs.
ATTALUS
List of sources and translations includes all Greek and Latin authors who are available in online translations (excluding short fragments), from the earliest times up to 200 A.D., and selected authors who wrote after 200 A.D.
http://www.attalus.org/info/sources.html
CORPUS CORPORUM
The site mlat.uzh.ch is a Latin text (meta-)repository and tool under way of development. Users should take into account that some functions do not yet work satisfactorily. This Corpus Córporum is being developed at the University of Zurich under the direction of Ph. Roelli, Institute for Greek and Latin Philology. The project uses exclusively free and open software and is non-commercial. For ancient texts, choose no. 5 "Latinitas antiqua" in the browse function, which essentially produces texts from Perseus, but the reading experience is much better, and it comes with a good dictionary in the right panel.
https://www.mlat.uzh.ch/browser?path=/
LATIN PACKHUM
This website contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity. These texts were previously available on The Packard Humanities Institute's CD ROM 5.3. You can find a complete listing in the Canon of Latin Authors.
https://latin.packhum.org/browse
(BTL) Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina Online
The BTL Online database provides electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, ranging from antiquity and late antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts. A total of approximately 13 million word forms are thus accessible electronically. The user interface allows various and differentiated searches. Classical scholars and ancient historians are provided with a valuable tool for both research and the preparation of teaching at school and university level. Each year, the database is extended by the texts of the newly printed Latin editions of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.
https://www.degruyter.com/database/btl/html
(DIGILIBLT) Digital library of late-antique latin texts
The Digital Library of Late-Antique Latin Texts—DigilibLT—publishes secular prose texts written in Latin in late antiquity (from the second to the seventh century AD). The texts are annotated according to the XML-TEI standards and are offered free of charge to the public for reading and research. Since its creation in 2010, DigilibLT has achieved significant goals: near 400 texts have already been uploaded, a number that is constantly increasing. In addition, in recent years DigilibLT has added two significant extensions to the canon of authors and works initially designed for inclusion. The first concerns the grammatical works, uploaded to the site based on the best and most recent critical editions. Since 2019, DigilibLT has started another expansion line, this time regarding late Roman law. The first step has been the completion of a Canon of Roman Law, now available on the website alongside the other canon. Uploading of texts has recently started and actually it is in full swing.
Musisque Deoque
A digital archive of Latin poetry, from its origins to the Italian Renaissance was established at the end of 2005 with the main goal of creating a singular database of Latin poetry, supported by a critical and exegetical electronic apparatus. At present, main collections of classical texts have been transferred onto digital device while resources, mostly online, allow quicker lexical searches. In most cases, however, search engine inquiry only provides results of a key inside a fix and ‘authoritarian’ text. The aim of Musisque Deoque is to overcome these limitations, allowing to locate not only the forms chosen from the text of a reference edition, but also the variants in its critical apparatus.
http://mizar.unive.it/mqdq/public/
Acta Sanctorum Database [PAYWALL]
an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature [PAYWALL]
In the early Middle Ages, literate individuals in and from the Celtic periphery of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, Scotland and the Isle of Man) wrote many and varied Latin works constituting what can arguably be seen as a distinctive literature, whose unusual vocabulary, grammar and phrasing (to say nothing of subject-matter) made it into what has been called “one of the most curious and interesting phenomena of medieval philology”. This database contains more than five hundred Latin works by over a hundred known and unknown authors, spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, etc.
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503597072-1
The Chicago Homer
The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. Except for fragments, it contains all the texts of these poems in the original Greek. In addition, the Chicago Homer includes English and German translations, in particular Lattimore's Iliad, James Huddleston's Odyssey, Daryl Hine's translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss. Through the associated web site Eumaios users of the Chicago Homer can also from each line of the poem access pertinent Iliad Scholia and papyrus
https://homer.library.northwestern.edu/
LEXICA/THESAURA
Logeion
Logeion (literally, a place for words; in particular, a speaker's platform, or an archive) was developed after the example of dvlf.uchicago.edu, to provide simultaneous lookup of entries in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection. As always, we are grateful for the Perseus Project's generosity in sharing their data. None of this would be possible without their commitment to open access. To enhance this site as both a research and a pedagogical tool, we add information based on corpus data in the right side bar, as well as references to chapters in standard textbooks.
https://logeion.uchicago.edu/λόγος
(TLL) Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is not only the largest Latin dictionary in the world, but also the first to cover all the Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D. 31 academies, and scholarly societies from 23 countries support the work at the Bavarian Academy of Science (Munich). The database currently contains lemmata from a to relinquo (Date: Nov. 2021).
(TLG) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
TLG® represents the first effort in the Humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/Iris/canon/csearch.jsp
A Platonic Lexicon & A Thucydidean Lexicon
Author specific lexicon and text browser for Plato and thucydides, incorporating crossreferences, specific definitions, bibliographies, illustrations.
https://lexeis.org/thucydides/#/
Glossarium Græco-Arabicum
The database Glossarium Græco-Arabicum makes available the files of a lexical project, intended to open up the lexicon of the mediæval Arabic translations from the Greek. It contains images of the filecards (ca. 80,000) which have not yet been published in the analytical reference dictionary A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (Leiden: Brill, 1992ff.), and comprises Arabic roots from the letter jîm to the end of the Arabic alphabet.
http://telota.bbaw.de/glossga/
LINGUISTICS
POINIKASTAS
Epigraphic Sources for Early Greek Writing – The Anne Jeffery Archive's The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece ("LSAG") has been catalogued and digitised, as part of a programme of work (Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This portion of the archive amounts to about five thousand pages of notes filed in seventy-seven of the folders. The notes themselves are typically written in pencil and include observations, bibliography, transliterations and drawings of epigraphic documents. The drawings, of which there are roughly four thousand in this section of the archive, are of particular interest. Many are originals and in numerous cases the images sketched by Jeffery give a clear impression of the three-dimensional context of a given piece of ancient writing. This is all the more true when the drawings are combined with photographs from the archive, about six hundred of which concern texts catalogued in LSAG. The photographs are mostly black and white negatives taken by Jeffery herself using a medium format (6cm x 6cm) Rolleiflex camera, the few exceptions being the occasional print obtained for the purposes of research or sent by others with a request for expert advice.
http://poinikastas.csad.ox.ac.uk/search-browse.shtml
LANGUAGE AQUISITION
ALPHEIOS
Alpheios builds evidence-based, open-source software to support study of the world's classical languages and literatures. We will help people learn how to learn languages as efficiently and enjoyably as possible, and in a way that best helps them understand their own literary heritage and culture, and the literary heritage and culture of other peoples throughout history. Our initial focus is on classical literature in languages no longer spoken, such as Latin and ancient Greek. The influence of these classics, like the river Alpheios, still runs like a subterranean stream deep beneath the contemporary world, as artists and thinkers continue to draw inspiration from them. Next priorities include supporting more languages, including Persian, Syriac and Hebrew, and adding audio and imagery as well as language learning aids and games.
https://texts.alpheios.net/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg002.alpheios-text-grc1/passage/1-30
PERSEIDS
The Perseids Platform is a web-based, fully audited, version-controlled editing environment. It enables the collaborative editing of texts in a framework of rigorous and transparent peer-review and credit mechanisms with strong editorial oversight. Treebanks are morpho-syntactic commentaries on texts, made sentence by sentence. The Perseids Platform allows students and scholars to build treebanks in an intuitive graphic interface while compiling the data in an XML document for analysis. Many of these treebanks have been gathered into collaborative and interactive publications.
https://www.perseids.org/digital-editions
https://perseids-publications.github.io/harrington-trees/ap-gallic-war-1-1-10/1
VERGIL PROJECT
The Vergil Project is a resource for students, teachers, and readers of Vergil's Aeneid. It offers an on-line hypertext linked to interpretive materials of various kinds. These include basic information about grammar, syntax, and diction; several commentaries; an apparatus criticus; help with scansion; and other resources.
http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu
HISTORIOGRAPHY
(CHAP) CLAVIS HISTORICORUM ANTIQUITATIS POSTERIORIS
This database inventorises all historiographical works of Late Antiquity (300 until 800 AD) in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic and, to a lesser extent, Hebrew, Aramaic and Persian. Names and titles in languages written in non-Latin alphabets have been included both in their original script and in transliteration.
http://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/
Brills' New Jacoby
DATABASE OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARS
The Database of Classical Scholars is a multi-faceted database that aims to provide biographical and bibliographical information on classical scholars from the period associated with classical scholarship as currently understood, from the end of the eighteenth century and the publication of F.A. Wolf's Prolegomena zu Homer (1795) to the current day. Each entry is accompanied by an appreciation of the scholar's career by an expert and where possible, a portrait. This is a work of international cooperation with an advisory committee composed of experts in the history of classical scholarship not only in North America, but in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. The project is endorsed by the Society for Classical Studies.
DIGITAL ATLAS/MAPS
Piranesi in Rome
This website explores Piranesi's Rome, as well as the ancient monuments that he portrayed with such passion. The endeavor represents a collaboration connecting the Art Department, the Davis Museum, Special Collections, and Wellesley's Mellon-funded Blended Learning Initiative in support of the exhibit Reframing the Past: Piranesi's Vedute di Roma. This exhibit showcases the museum's growing collection of Piranesi's etchings and was organized by Meredith Fluke, Kemper Curator of Academic Programs, and Kimberly Cassibry, Assistant Professor of Art, with the participation of Liza Oliver, Assistant Professor of Art.
http://omeka.wellesley.edu/piranesi-rome/
Βυζαντινες Πολεις
With two sources from the middle of the 6th century as a starting point: the "Synecdemus" of Hierocleus) and the "Peri Ktisma" of Procopius and a few later additions. The complete list of Byzantine cities is listed at the bottom of the page, after the map.
https://byzantium.gr/mapgr.php?fbclid=IwAR1W04EgW8TeX36gU0jbU3Som6H2IvZOFM5U1M6qpy0v_Ksoyx0HNSLwddU
(DARE) DIGITAL ATLAS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
The map was inspired by the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Talbert, 2000) and was built upon digitization efforts carried out by the Pleiades and DARMC projects even though it became necessary to return to the original map for additional data in order to produce a functional digital map. DARE aims at a much higher level of accuracy and the integration of digital resources such as satellite imagery, national topographic maps, source texts, other source material and scholarly literature.
(TT) TOPOSTEXT
ToposText is an indexed collection of ancient texts and mapped places relevant the the history and mythology of the ancient Greeks from the Neolithic period up through the 2nd century CE. It was inspired by two decades of exploring Greece by car, foot, or bicycle, and by clumsy efforts to appreciate επί τόπου the relevant information from Pausanias or other primary sources.
https://topostext.org/the-places
MAPPING PAST SOCIETIES
formerly, the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations. [COMING SOON. VERY EXCITING. ARCGIS layout covering ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, MEDIEVAL WORLD, ROMAN WORLD]
PLEIADES
Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography.
POLIS
POLIS allows scholars and students of classical Greek (and to some extent Roman) history to visualize data about Places (especially archaic and classical Greek city-states) and People (those famous enough to be included in a standard Classical dictionary) from two large data-sets, and to generate maps and simple statistical information from them. We hope that the site will facilitate original research on the classical Greek world, that it will be used as a teaching tool, and that it will be fun to play with.
https://classics.stanford.edu/projects/polis
Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
A database of the fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae. The database infrastructure, digital photographs, and 3D models are primarily the creation of Natasha Gelfand, David Koller, and Marc Levoy of the Stanford Computer Science Department. The text is researched and written by Tina Najbjerg and Jennifer Trimble of the Stanford Classics Department. This site is still under construction and we welcome your comments about the layout and content.
https://formaurbis.stanford.edu/index.php
ORBIS
The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World – ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.
Peutinger's Roman Map
The so-called "Peutinger Map" is the only Roman world map known to have survived antiquity. Preserved in a single, medieval copy now housed in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the map stretches from Britain in the west to India in the east, covering a series of 11 parchment rectangles totaling over 6.7 meters (22 feet) in length. In preparing his 2010 book on the subject (Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered; Cambrige UP), Richard Talbert collaborated with the staff of the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill and with ISAW's Digital Programs team to produce digital tools that were used to record and analyze the map. These have been published online so that students and scholars can verify his findings and form their own impressions of the map and its content.
https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/space/tpeut.html
https://peutinger.atlantides.org
OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner
a reconstruction of an antique Roman map with internet technology. OmnesViae.org offers a reconstruction of the Tabula Peutingeriana with internet technology. The Tabula Peutingeriana, also known as the Peutinger map, is a medieval copy of a Roman roadmap from about the year 300 CE. This reconstruction is mainly based on research by Richard Talbert. The places, connections and distances are mostly derived from data published by Talbert (see http://cambridge.org/us/talbert/). To study the Tabula Peutingeriana using OmnesViae, one needs to be aware of how this reconstruction was made, how it works and how the underlying data differs from Talberts dataset.
MANUSCRIPTS/PAPYRI
BODLEIAN
The Bodleian holds one of the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collections of archives and manuscripts.
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
DIGIVATLIB
a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).
(BML) Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana digital collections
The Library holds around 11,000 manuscripts, 2,500 papyri, 43 ostraka, 566 incunabula, 1,681 sixteenth century printed books, 592 periodicals on related subjects and a total of 126,527 books dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
https://www.bmlonline.it/en/la-biblioteca/fondi-principali/
Bibliotheca Palatina – digital: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Former Crown Jewel of Germany's Libraries
One of the consequences of the Thirty Years' War was that the most important collection of books in the 17th century Holy Roman Empire, the Bibliotheca Palatina, was divided between two principal locations: Heidelberg and the Vatican. Since 2001, Heidelberg University Library has been working on several projects that aim to digitize parts of this great collection, the final goal being a complete virtual reconstruction of the 'mother of all libraries'.
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/bpd/
e-codices. Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library. At the moment, the virtual library contains 2653 manuscripts from 97 different collections. The virtual library will be continuously updated and extended.
https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
BNF Gallica
Gallica est la bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de ses partenaires. En ligne depuis 1997, elle s’enrichit chaque semaine de milliers de nouveautés et offre aujourd’hui accès à plusieurs millions de documents. Un marché de numérisation dédié aux documents précieux et spécialisés (manuscrits, cartes et plans, estampes, photographies, affiches, partitions, documents sonores, documents de la Réserve des livres rares) est lancé en 2010. Entre 2010 et 2014, Gallica passe de 1 à 3 millions de documents. Les premières pages éditoriales font leur apparition en 2013, autour des collections de presse. Plusieurs centaines de pages structurées par types de documents, thématiques ou aire géographique sont désormais accessibles désormais à partir du bouton "Collections".
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop
PSIonline - PLAURonline - PPadonline - PPRAGonline
Il progetto è il frutto di accordi di cooperazione stipulati tra diverse istituzioni italiane e straniere: le Università di Bologna, Cassino, Messina, Napoli e Padova, l’Accademia Fiorentina di Papirologia, l’Istituto Papirologico Vitelli – Università di Firenze, la Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, il Museo Egizio del Cairo. La sua realizzazione è attualmente curata dal Centro Editoriale e dal Laboratorio di Ricerche Storiche e Archeologiche dell’Antichità (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Sociali e della Salute) dell’Università di Cassino.
http://www.psi-online.it/search
Papyri.info
a comprehensive search engine and database for papyrological sources and bibliographies. It aggregates material from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP), and depends on close collaboration with Trismegistos, for rigorous maintenance of relationship mapping and unique identifiers. Work is in progress to incorporate content from the Arabic Papyrological Database (APD) as well.
Oxyrhynchus Online Image Database
image database of the Oxyrhynchus papyri.
http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?site-=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=POxy&ct=0&l=en&w=utf-8
(HGV) HEIDELBERGER GESAMTVERZEICHNIS DER GRIECHISCHEN PAPYRUSURKUNDEN ÄGYPTENS
einschließlich der Ostraka usw., der lateinischen Texte, sowie der entsprechenden Urkunden aus benachbarten Regionen
http://aquila.zaw.uni-heidelberg.de/texte/HGV-Texte.html
PALAEOGRAPHY
Cappelli Online
A digital version of a most important compilation of paleographical abbreviations, by Adriano Cappelli. The database is initiated by Universitaet Zuerich, pdf versions of Cappelli (Dizionario Di Abbreviature in Italian, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum in German) are available on Internet Archive.
https://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/en/ressourcen/abkuerzungen/cappelli-online
DIGIPAL
a new resource for the study of medieval handwriting, particularly that produced in England during the years 1000–1100, the time of Æthelred, Cnut and William the Conqueror. It is designed to allow you to see samples of handwriting from the period and to compare them with each other quickly and easily.
(PAPPAL) The Paleography of the Papyri
In order to provide a reliable point of reference for the investigation of ancient writing, PapPal collects dated examples of hands from the 3rd c. BC to the 8th c. AD surviving mainly from Greco-Roman Egypt. Because many ancient documents preserved on papyrus are dated to the very day on which they were recorded, viewing them together brings out features that were typical of a time and, in some cases, of a place of writing. Furthermore, as no two hands are identical, comparison of a range of contemporary scripts also illuminates the variety of writing styles that existed.
http://pappal.info
The Homer Multitext Project
The Homer Multitext project seeks to present the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in a critical framework that accounts for the fact that these poems were composed orally over the course of hundreds, if not thousands of years by countless singers who composed in performance. The evolution and the resulting multiformity of the textual tradition, reflected in the many surviving texts of Homer, must be understood in its many different historical contexts. Using technology that takes advantage of the best available practices and open source standards that have been developed for digital publications in a variety of fields, the Homer Multitext offers free access to a library of texts and images and tools to allow readers to discover and engage with the Homeric tradition. The Homer Multitext is a long-term project emphasizing collaborative research (we are particularly interested in undergraduate research), openly licensed data, and innovative uses of technology. The Homer Multitext welcomes collaboration in the form of diplomatic editions, images of historical documents, and translations. All material must be openly licensed and attribution will be given to the contributors. Please contact Casey Dué (casey@chs.harvard.edu) and Mary Ebbott (ebbott@chs.harvard.edu).
PROSOPOGRAPHY
(LGPN) Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
established to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names, drawing on the full range of written sources from the 8th century B.C. down to the late Roman Empire.
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/index.html
Athenians Project
This database search complements the published volumes of Persons of Ancient Athens. Description of Entries, listed in the cell below, explains how data is presented. Searches may be made to 10,000 names available in the ATHENIANS database beta, gamma, and delta. The possible searches range from simple searches such as selecting every person with a particular name, or in a particular deme, or of a particular tribe(phyle) or of a specified profession to more sophisticated searches, such as to find all Athenians who lived between specified years and/or are related to a certain person and/or are attested in a class of document, etc. Each database can also be listed entirely.
http://atheniansproject.com/EmpressDatabase.html
(DPRR) DIGITAL PROSOPOGRAPHY OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
The primary objective of the project is to facilitate prosopographical research into the elite of the Roman Republic, its structure, scale and changes in composition over time. To that end a comprehensive, searchable database of all known members of the upper strata of Roman society has been established, which brings together information about individual careers, office holdings, personal status, life dates and family relationships.
https://romanrepublic.ac.uk/about/
(PIR) PROSOPOGRAPHIA IMPERII ROMANI
Die Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) ist ein Personenlexikon. Es soll im wesentlichen die Führungsschicht des Römischen Reiches in der Frühen und Hohen Kaiserzeit erfassen. Die untere zeitliche Grenze ist die Schlacht von Aktium 31 v. Chr., seit der die monarchische Herrschaftsstruktur für Rom endgültig geworden war; die obere Grenze bildet die Herrschaft Diokletians (284-305), mit der eine wesentliche Änderung im staatlichen und gesellschaftlichen Aufbau des Reiches durchgesetzt wurde.
ROMANS1BY1
a population database recording people identified in Greek and Roman epigraphy. "An insight into the population of Roman Dacia and Moesia" was Research grant supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research.
PRÊTRES CIVIQUES
Cette base de données des prêtres du culte impérial romain dans les cités de la province d’Asie est placée sous licence Creative Commons. Ses contenus peuvent être cités ou mentionnés à condition de faire à la fois référence au site http://pretres-civiques.org et au travail de recherche ainsi qu'à son auteur : Gabrielle Frija, Prosopographie des prêtres du culte impérial dans les cités de la province romaine d’Asie, 2010.
https://www.pretres-civiques.org
AMICI POPULI ROMANI
The main targets for inclusion into the APR collection are all individuals outside of Italy that were made friends of the Romans either on the official level or less formally with an individual Roman aristocrat. Some female dynasts are also listed, either by virtue of their own status as amicae, or, more often, to clarify genealogical uncertainties of their more prominent male counterparts. In the same vein, other close relatives who are known to have played important roles are included as well. Further entries on successors or even rivals of such amici are included, in the hope that detailed knowledge of them may help us better understand the extent but also limitations of diplomatic friendship with Rome. Most entries fall into the period stretching from the Hannibalic War (218-201 BC) to the Flavian period (AD 69-96), but these are not strict temporal limits.
http://www.altaycoskun.com/apr
Roman Bastards database
The Roman Bastards database holds all the papyrological, epigraphic and legal evidence concerning illegitimate children in the Roman Empire up to the reign of Constantine the Great. Database contains: 1831 Bastards Records as of April 5th, 2022.
http://romanbastards.wpia.uw.edu.pl
(CPNRB) A database of the Celtic personal names of Roman Britain
This database collects all the personal names from Roman Britain which are thought to contain Celtic elements. While personal names from Gaul have received considerable attention over the years in works such as GPN and KGP, the huge increase in the number of names (from the finds in Bath and Vindolanda, together with the publication of RIB II) now makes it imperative that the data is available in a easily searchable format. It is hoped that this database will offer a useful and flexible tool by which the information provided by personal names from Roman Britain can be integrated into the scholarship both of Roman Britain and of name-studies more generally (for a discussion based on the epigraphic data published up to and including 2005, see Mullen 2007a).
https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/
(PBE I) PROSOPOGRAPHY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
This site, the PBE I Online edition, presents the research output of the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire project, 641-867 (PBE I) which was carried out primarily at King's College London from the 1989 to 2001. It covered a period when the administrative structure and governing elite of Byzantium were undergoing crucial changes, and when the Mediterranean world of Late Antiquity was assuming the forms of the Middle Ages.
(PBW) PROSOPOGRAPHY OF THE BYZANTINE WORLD
The Byzantine World was not defined by the empire’s shrinking borders, but by the boundaries left by Basil II in 1025. The sources were far more disparate, and distributed among many cultures and languages; it was no longer possible to aim at reliable completeness, when a new seal, or a reference in an Armenian source, might be discovered at any moment. It was also becoming clear that it would be possible to publish the database directly online, making it unnecessary to aim at unattainable completeness. The intellectual structure developed by Mr John Bradley was to create a database of assertions ('factoids') made about individuals in the sources which were analysed by the team. The publication, therefore, is a prosopographical reading of sources for the period, limited to the sources which have been studied so far.
https://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/browse/
TUDOR NETWORKS
The Tudor government maintained a communication network that criss-crossed the globe. This visualisation brings together 123,850 letters connecting 20,424 people from the United Kingdom’s State Papers archive, dating from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Elizabeth I (1509-1603). On this page we can see all people who sent or received letters from two or more people, arranged chronologically left-to-right.
EPIGRAPHY
Ancient Graffiti Project. A digital resource for studying the graffiti of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Our search engine complements traditional, text-based search engines, allowing different types of searches that focus on the spaces of the ancient city and on characteristics specific to ancient handwritten inscriptions.
You can search for graffiti by their location, clicking directly on a map of the city or searching by city-block, or
You can search specifically for figural graffiti (graffiti drawings), browse all figural examples or choose the category of drawing that interests you, or
You can combine searches with our filters, selecting from a number of search options (including Language, Property Type, or Writing Style).
In addition, the search bar at the top of the main page conducts a global search of the whole database. You can search using Latin terms, English translations, names of locations, or bibliography.
This is a growing project that has involved more than seventy talented team members over the past several years. During the summers of 2014 and 2016, our team surveyed and documented graffiti still extant in Herculaneum. In summer 2015, we led a workshop on the ancient Greek graffiti of Herculaneum and Pompeii at the Center for Hellenic Studies, a scholarly institute of Harvard University, based in Washington DC. We have conducted fieldwork in Pompeii during summer 2019 and have been processing finds since then. The search engine and database are constantly being updated and expanded. At present, users can search all the ancient graffiti of Herculaneum as well as graffiti from different areas of Pompeii, including the Lupanar, the large campus of palaestra beside the amphitheater, Regio I, Insula 8 and Regio V, Insula 1, and all of Regio VIII. As of July 2022, our team has edited and brought online more than 2000 ancient graffiti. We continue both to edit additional inscriptions and refine further search capabilities. More will be available as the project progresses. Check out also the copyright-free, open access, freely editable map of Herculaneum we created for OpenStreetMap.
http://ancientgraffiti.org/about/
IG-IG / IG-SEG CONCORDANCE
In den Jahren 2009 und 2010 wurden vom Seminar für Alte Geschichte/Institut für Epigraphik der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsstelle Inscriptiones Graecae an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zwei online abfragbare Konkordanzen erstellt. Die Konkordanzen werden fortlaufend aktualisiert.
https://www.ig.uni-muenster.de
Inscriptiones
LATIN NOW
Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy
The Center aims, through regular and active acquisition, to maintain an epigraphic library that is both deep and current and that will serve the needs of Berkeley's faculty and students as well as those of visiting scholars. At present, the Aleshire Center’s library consists of ca. 1,600 books, 5,000 offprints, more than 1,000 photos, and some 900 squeezes, which are housed on the Berkeley Campus in 310 Dwinelle Hall, and available for use by faculty, students, and visitors. The Center's holdings may be searched through our online database. In addition to seeing the content of our collection of books (catalogued according to Library of Congress standards), journals, and offprints, users may view digital images of the squeezes and offprints. Should a user wish to view a high-resolution (1200 dpi) version of any of these images, s/he should contact the director of the center.
http://aleshire.berkeley.edu/holdings
Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project
DEA is an interdisciplinary project initiated by scientists from the Digital Worlds Institute and the Department of Classics at the University of Florida. The goal of the project is to develop new open-access scientific tools for the Humanities and apply concepts from digital and interactive media and computer science to Archaeology and Classics. In our web-site you can view our 3D collections and interact with our on-line exhibits, read about our recent results, find interactive demos of our projects, and learn more about our future research directions.
https://research.dwi.ufl.edu/projects/digitalepigraphy.org/
Epigraphy.info
an international open community pursuing a collaborative environment for digital epigraphy, which facilitates scholarly communication and interaction. We apply FAIR principles to epigraphic information in order to efficiently create, use and share it among researchers, students and enthusiasts around the globe. The Epigraphy.info community works to gather and enhance the many existing epigraphic efforts, and serves as a landing point for digital tools, practices and methodologies for managing collections of inscriptions.
(EAGLE) EUROPEANA EAGLE PROJECT
The Inscriptions Search Engine is the main gateway into the EAGLE’s massive epigraphic database, the place where the content provided by the epigraphers’ community is aggregated and stored and where it is made accessible to the users. The total number of inscriptions in EAGLE is around 350.000 disambiguated texts at the moment. There are currently 455414 editions of inscriptions, but some have two, some have up to five editions online. You can get this figure by searching only for documental entities. However there are many inscriptions which will be disambiguated and thus added to the count of individual inscriptions in the aggregator.
https://www.eagle-network.eu/basic-search/
EAGLE MEDIA WIKI TRANSLATIONS https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/
Attic Inscriptions Online
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Attic_Inscriptions_Online
Roman Tripolitania
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Translations_of_the_Inscriptions_of_Roman_Tripolitania
Hispania Epigrafica
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Translations_of_the_Inscriptions_of_Hispania_Epigrafica
Ubi erat Lupa
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/UEL_List
Brigetio
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/ELTE
Dacia
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/UBB
Aphrodisias
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Inscriptions_of_Aphrodisias
Petrae
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Petrae
Epigraphic Database Roma
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/EDR_List
Bari
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/EDB_List
Last Statues of Antiquity
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Last_Statues_of_Antiquity
Roman Inscriptions of Britain
https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Roman_Inscriptions_of_Britain
CIL Archivum Corporis Electronicum
The database provides access to the archival material of the CIL, the squeezes [WITH 356 3D SQUEEZES!!], photos and records of the inscriptions edited in the CIL. The entries are linked to the epigraphic database Clauss – Slaby EDCS, so that the text of the inscriptions is also available.
https://cil.bbaw.de/ace#/search
CSAD SQUEEZE COLLECTION
The core of the Centre’s research archive is a collection of around 25,000 squeezes (paper impressions) of Greek inscriptions, over a half from the principal museums in Athens, but ranging across the Greek world from Ai Khanoum in Afghanistan to Upper Egypt.
https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/squeeze-collection-0
KRATEROS
the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study.
CROSSREADS
Crossreads will offer the first coherent account of the interplay of linguistic and textual material culture in ancient Sicily over a period of 1,500 years.
https://crossreads.web.ox.ac.uk
(EDR) EPIGRAPHIC DATABASE ROME –
collect all published Greek and Latin inscriptions up to the 7th century A.D. considering their best existing editions, also enclosing when possible – after a necessary check – a number of additional important data and/or images. As part of EAGLE, in the same way EDR aims at collecting the whole epigraphy of Rome and of the Italian peninsula including Sardinia and Sicily, with the exception of Christian inscriptions (under EDB jurisdiction).
http://www.edr-edr.it/default/index.php?lang=en
(EDAK) EPIGRAPHISCHE DATENBANK ZUM ANTIKEN KLEINASIEN
Projekt der Hamburger Alten Geschichte hat das Ziel, die verstreut publizierten griechischen wie lateinischen Inschriften aus dem Gebiet der heutigen Türkei in einer Datenbank zu erfassen und mittels Kommentar und Beschreibung auch inhaltlich zu ershcließen.
https://www.epigraphik.uni-hamburg.de/content/index.xml
(EDH) EPIGRAPHIC DATABASE HEIDELBERG
contains the texts of Latin and bilingual (i.e. Latin-Greek) inscriptions of the Roman Empire. The epigraphic monuments were collected and kept up to date on the basis of modern research. With the help of search functions specific queries can be carried out - e.g. a search for words in inscriptions and / or particular descriptive data. The search results are often displayed together with photos and drawings. Another focus lies on showing the exact find spots of inscriptions. [Also see PARTNERS for database cross-site]
https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
(AIO) ATTIC INSCRIPTIONS ONLINE
The core of the site comprises annotated English translations of Attic inscriptions. The most popular means of accessing a translation is via browse by source. If you browse by an outdated reference (e.g. an old edition of IG) you will always be led to a translation of the most up-to-date Greek text. Each translation includes a link to the Greek text translated, whether on an external site or on AIO. (In 2020 we completed a programme of adding Greek texts onto AIO where no up-to-date Greek text is available elsewhere in open access). Each translation also includes links to any available online images of the inscription, on external open-access sites or on AIO. You can also browse by date, by findspot, by original location, by present location, by inscription type, by monument type, and by publication date on AIO. You can also carry out a word search. There is also an advanced search. Please note that these searches are not designed to accommodate Greek characters. The translations are supported by two series of academic papers:AIO Papers. These generally discuss a specific inscription or group of inscriptions on the site. AIO Papers 10 is a short guide to the use of the site, with FAQ.AIUK Papers. Each Paper contains a volume of Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections (AIUK). You might also be interested in the AIO Youtube channel, which contains videos about individual inscriptions or groups of inscriptions, mostly in UK Collections.
https://www.atticinscriptions.com
SEARCHEABLE GREEK INSCRIPTIONS
IG Digital Edition (Text only, without editors' commentary)
ITHACA
Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks
ISicily
a growing opensource database of ancient Sicilian epigraphic records，aiming to offer full bibliography and information along with translation and concordances with other databases. Adopts Epidoc to show geographic distribution.
http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions/
SAXA LOQUUNTUR. A WEBSITE ON GREEK AND LATIN EPIGRAPHY
This site brings together a number of resources that are available for the study of epigraphic texts. The site was designed for my (Onno van Nijf) own courses at the University of Groningen and at the Netherlands Institute at Athens The site will be based on two earlier documents that I have compiled, 'The Absolute Beginners’ Guide to Greek and Latin Epigraphy' and 'Electronic Epigraphy’ which have found some readers over the web. The focus is on Greek inscriptions, but Latin inscriptions are not excluded!
http://www.saxa-loquuntur.nl/index.html
THE PETRIFIED MUSE
the blog of Peter Kruschwitz, Professor of Ancient Cultural History (Antike Kulturgeschichte) at the University of Vienna and Fellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis). Main contents concern Roman Cultural History (with an emphasis on poetry and song as manifestations of cultural practice and expression), Roman epigraphy (with a particular focus on Latin verse inscriptions), and the culture of Roman non-elites.
(CE) Current Epigraphy
reports news and events in (especially Greek and Latin) epigraphy. CE publishes workshop and conference announcements, notices of discoveries, publications and reviews, project reports, descriptive links to digital epigraphic projects, and occasional pre-publication previews of new epigraphic material and other short articles.
https://currentepigraphy.org/about/
Georgy Kantor's blog.
I am an Ancient History Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford, where I teach – mostly Roman and Hellenistic history – and do my own research. I work on legal and institutional history (above all in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, but also in the comparative perspective), Roman epigraphy (both in Greek and in Latin), and on regional history of Roman Asia Minor. I am also part of the SEG editorial team, working on inscriptions from the Black Sea and Danubian regions. Some of my publications are online at the academia.edu. This blog is meant for sharing some of my work-in-progress and discussing thoughts which emerge from research and teaching.
https://georgykantorblog.wordpress.com/tag/roman-epigraphy/
ART/ICONOGRAPHY
BEAZLEY ARCHIVE POTTERY DATABASE (BAPD)
The BAPD is the world's largest database of ancient Greek painted pottery (‘Greek vases’). It contains records of more than 130,000 ancient pots and 250,000 images. Nearly all of the pots included were made during the 6th to 4th centuries BC, and about three quarters of them were made in Athens. This database has its origins in the physical Beazley Archive, which is kept in the Classical Art Research Centre in Oxford. The great majority of its images were collected by the great pottery expert, Sir John Beazley (1885-1970). However, the Archive grew further after his death, and the BAPD contains even more images acquired later from a variety of sources, including major museums, auction-houses, digitized volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum series, and Beazley’s own drawings. Where the source of an image is not obvious please contact us for information.
https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/carc/pottery
(WebLIMC) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
The wealth of ancient myths and legends which we call Classical Mythology is one of the major elements of our cultural heritage. A huge amount of documents and photographs were assembled in the course of the preparation of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC; 1981-1999 and 2009) and the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA; 2004-2014). This dataset is regularly updated and enhanced with new documents. weblimc.org gives access to the digital ressources (ca. 50'000 ancient objects and photographs) provided by three components of the late Foundation for the LIMC: Digital LIMC: the archives of the Foundation for the LIMC that have been transfered to the University of Basel. LIMC France: digital ressources on Greek, Etruscan and Roman iconography and objects. LIMC Greece: data on objects from recent excavations in Greece.
Digital Milliet Project
Our work on ancient textual sources concerning Greek and Roman painting takes a similar approach to that of the original Recueil Milliet. We offer an interactive collection of the ancient Greek and Latin texts about painting. Every single text is to be accompanied by a bilingual translation (English and French) and a commentary produced in the light of current knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman painting. Each passage has a persistent identifier and the passages are digitally tagged, on the level of the passage and within the text, indicating the major subjects demonstrated in the texts and images. These tags make up a bilingual index to the collection. The texts and enhancements are saved in the Open Annotation data model, a standardized framework for creating annotations on resources in the world wide web. Leveraging this growing standard makes our data easily readable and reusable, and therefore potentially interoperable with other projects. Finally, the collection includes textual and iconographical comments that explain technical points about ancient painting such as shadowing, perspective, symmetry, and outline drawing. Although the works of art described in ancient texts are lost, archaeological materials nonetheless renew and increase our knowledge about ancient painting and allow us to offer concrete examples of classical painting to illustrate or accompany the descriptions found in ancient texts.
https://digmill.perseids.org/commentary
(CVA) CORPUS VASORUM ANTIQUORUM ONLINE
CVA Online, the open access digital element of the CVA project, is hosted by the Classical Art Research Centre on behalf of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI). The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ('Corpus of Ancient Vases') is the oldest research project of the UAI. It consists of a series of high-quality catalogues of mostly ancient Greek painted pottery in collections around the world. The first fascicule appeared in 1922 and since then more than 400 have appeared, illustrating more than 100,000 vases in 24 countries. The three-year CVA Online project originated in 2000, when Oxford University's Beazley Archive (later the Classical Art Research Centre) was invited to undertake the digitization of out-of-print fascicules. Some further digitization occurred up to 2016 and we continue to add resources when opportunities arise. The digitized catalogues can be viewed and browsed through this site. Their images and selected content are also integrated within CARC's Beazley Archive Pottery Database.
https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/cva/browse
Reading Trajan’s Column. National Geographic
The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column. It’s a tale that reads like an ancient comic strip.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/index.html
Google Arts & Culture
3D Pottery. "Sculpt your own historical pot."
ARCHAEOLOGY
SearchCulture.gr
SearchCulture.gr is the Greek Aggregator for Cultural Content and National Provider for Europeana. A wide variety of digital resources is accessible via SearchCulture.gr: archaeological items, historical documents and manuscripts, items of material culture, works of art, cartographic material, books and intangible heritage resources. The digital files are primarily photographs and other images, pdfs, 3D models and audiovisual material. So far, SearchCulture.gr has amassed more than 430,000 items from 67 collections contributed by 53 institutions which include museums, archives, ephorates of antiquities, municipalities and cultural foundations. SearchCulture.gr has contributed 54 collections (more than 562,119 items) to Europeana.
https://www.searchculture.gr/aggregator/portal/
Ancient Mediterranean Digital Project
The Ancient Mediterranean Digital Project is an open-access database on ship representations of the Mediterranean basin broadly covering the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods. Initially conceived as a means to publish the catalogue portion of my doctoral dissertation covering the eastern part of the region, the project has since expanded with a photogrammetry component, with further plans to include the western part of the basin in order to provide a holistic view of the entire Mediterranean. Drawing inspiration from exciting advances in the digital humanities and an ever-growing need for open-access research tools and digital cultural heritage preservation, the project’s ultimate aim is to create an up-to-date virtual maritime museum that gathers material which is widely dispersed in dozens of institutions on multiple continents, a significant portion of which remains poorly documented or little known.
In addition to basic information, entries are provided with my annotated commentary that covers both the technical and contextual aspects of the objects, supplemented by my own drawings for a good portion of the catalogue as well as photogrammetry models. The guiding methodology has been to approach ship representations as cultural artefacts, providing a historically situated, context-based analysis that integrates their technical aspects with socioeconomic practices, cultural significance and attitudes. The advanced database search engine has likewise been tailored to the specific nautical theme of corpus, while the interactive map is meant to supplement it with a spatial distribution component. It is hoped that AncMed can provide, in a convenient and user-friendly format, the research tools for scholars outside of the discipline to meaningfully use and integrate this dataset while stimulating future collaborative projects and crowdsourcing.
http://ancmed.ulb.be/index.php?fbclid=IwAR3pHFULTZQXw4kWxOIEzE7uw-5buMP3s7sooB2SB8qSOd_INhXu8ZRBZmw
Archaeology in Greece Online
An indispensible tool for researchers in all disciplines who wish to learn about the latest archaeological discoveries in Greece and Cyprus, Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne is a richly illustrated topographical database with a mapping feature to locate field projects within sites and regions.
https://chronique.efa.gr/?kroute=homepage
The Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome
In direct acknowledgment of Platner and Ashby's gold-standard publication, Nash called his work The Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. It was issued in two volumes between 1961 and 1962, and contemporaneously published in German as Bildlexikon zur Topographie des antiken Rom. The tomes were produced with support from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute) in Rome. The book declared itself (on increasingly hard-to-find dust jackets): “The first systematic pictorial survey of all Roman monuments and buildings, containing pictures of every extant relic in the Eternal City, some of which have never before been photographed.” Because Nash focused only on buildings that left a physical—photographable—trace, his dictionary was far less comprehensive (286 entries) than Platner and Ashby's work (circa 1,500 entries). The dictionary publishes 1,338 of the 1,500 photographs taken by Ernest Nash while in Rome during the 1930s and '50s and supplements them with concise historical and architectural descriptions. By offering both a map and public access, this digital publication of Nash's photographs responds to those early criticisms.
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/nash/feature/the-pictorial-dictionary-of-ancient-rome
The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Digital Collection
In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These images were calculated to appeal to the taste for classical antiquity that fueled the cultural event we call the Renaissance. After Lafreri published a title page in the mid-1570s, collections of these prints came to be known as the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Tourists and other collectors who bought prints from Lafreri made their own selections and had them individually bound. Over time, Lafreri's title page served as starting point for large and eclectic compilations, expanded and rearranged by generations of collectors.
The University of Chicago's Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center holds the largest Speculum collection. This group of 994 prints (engravings, etchings, and a few woodcuts) was brought together by a nineteenth-century collector; it is organized around a core of prints published by Lafreri but also includes many other related prints. This site provides scholars, students, and art lovers with access to this collection at a distance -- much as prints themselves originally afforded a view of Rome from afar.
The Speculum and related prints are presented here as zoomable, high-resolution digital images with searchable catalogue information. Virtual itineraries provide paths through selected prints from the collection based on a particular theme, location, or artist's work.
https://speculum.lib.uchicago.edu/content/introduction.html
Kleros
The study of drawing lots in the ancient Greek world relates to the practices of drawing lots, their contexts, and the egalitarian mindset that both enabled and expressed them. Long before lots became a political instrument in the Athenian democracy, Greeks were drawing lots for distribution, selection, determining turns and procedure, initiating social and political mixture, and divination. Greeks participated in lotteries on an equal basis, defining the contours of the community in the process, and emphasizing the values of equality and fairness. The birth of democracy in ancient Greece cannot be fully understood without researching the wide spectrum of drawing lot with their emphasis on individual, equal or equitable “portions,” and the interchangeability (hence equality) of participants. The centuries between Homer and Cleisthenes (roughly 750-500 BCE) have never been studied comprehensively with the question of drawing lots in mind. Drawing lots expressed a horizontal, egalitarian “vector” of society that was often at odds with the elitist one.
This database was created using lemmatized search in the TLG (Thesaurus linguae graecae) and search by all possible forms of the main key-terms of lottery practices in PHI (The Packard Humanities Institute). More epigraphic evidence, absent in SGE (Searchable Greek Inscriptions - PHI) was found through CGRN (Collection of Greek Ritual Norms) website, using search by a Greek word.
The research on ‘Greeks Drawing Lots’ was supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant no 1033/17. The work on the database and the internet site is supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. This Internet site can be viewed either independently or in conjunction with the forthcoming book on Drawing Lots in ancient Greece: from egalitarianism to democracy by the principal investigator (Irad Malkin) co-authored with Josine Blok’s part on the role of the lot in polis governance.
（VICI）Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity
Vici.org is the archaeological atlas of classical antiquity. It is a community driven archaeological map, inspired by and modelled after Wikipedia. The first version of Vici.org went online in May 2012. It was preceded by a sister website Omnesviae.org, a roman routeplanner based on the Peutinger map. Since its start, Vici.org has grown a lot. At the time to this writing, over 140 contributors have added nearly 20,000 locations, approximately 1,000 line tracings and over 3,000 images. Similar to Wikipedia, all written content is available for reuse using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-license. Metadata is available using the CC0 / Public Domain dedication. Images or line tracings may be available under other licenses. Vici.org invites everyone to participate and share his of her knowledge of classical antiquity. Vici.org does provide various services to reuse this shared knowledge, through various dataservices or by using the Vici widget.
Gardens of the Roman Empire
GRE aims to bring knowledge of Roman garden archaeology out of local archaeological journals and print books into a free open access resource in a consistent format that provides scholars, students, and professionals global access to evidence of all types for ancient garden culture. The entries range from sites that have been excavated using contemporary techniques to early sites where gardens are suspected but not yet proven. The range of evidence assembled includes up-to-date descriptions, plans, stratigraphic sections, bibliography, and photographs of gardens known archaeologically.
https://roman-gardens.github.io/
ROMAQ
The Roman Aquaducts project aims to localize and collect all publications on ancient aqueducts within the borders of the Roman Empire, focusing on roman aqueducts built in the period 400 BC to 400 AD. By necessity, we concentrate our attention on the large aqueducts that served cities and towns, although we also include interesting small aqueducts that served villas and sanctuaries.
https://www.romaq.org/the-project/aqueducts.html
(YDEA) Yale Digital Dura-Europos Archive
The YDEA team has developed and documented a process to join-up its own internal Dura-Europos artifacts, and is now adapting that blueprint to join-up objects from Dura in other institutions worldwide, including the Louvre, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Royal Ontario Museum, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Harvard Art Museums, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
https://ydea.yale.edu/search-dura-europos-data
ANCIENT LOCATIONS
a collection of Placemarks of archaeologically interesting locations of the ancient world, by Steven White Jr. The list is continuously updated and expanded to give anyone with an interest in archaeology and history the possibility to look up the coordinates of relevant sites. Locations are included if they existed prior to 476 CE in the Old World (end of the West-Roman Empire) and prior to 1492 CE in the New World (re-discovery of the New World).
FASTI ONLINE
The aim of the site is to provide a database of excavations since 2000, providing a record in English and in the local language for each season. Each participating country is responsible for uploading the data it gathers: some countries’ records are more complete than others. Between 1946 and 1987 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained very useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. However, spiraling costs and publication delays combined to render it less and less useful. AIACs board of directors thus decided in 1998 to discontinue the publication and to seek a new way of recording and diffusing new results. The Fasti Online is the result of this effort.
http://www.fastionline.org/excavation/map_view.php?map_restart=140
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The AMPHORAS Project
The site contains information about the plain, unglazed, ceramic storage containers with two handles, mostly pointed at the bottom, that were used to carry wine, oil, fish, and other commodities around the ancient Mediterranean. While we have information about many classes of amphora (including Roman, Pamphyllian, Cypriote, Gaza 'baggy' jars, Sinpean etc) our primary focus is on Greek amphoras, the jars made predominanty in Rhodes, Thasos, and Knidos to supply the needs of Athens and the Greek mainland in the Hellenistic period.
https://amphoras.artsci.utoronto.ca/project.html
DYABOLA [NO ACCESS]
Dyabola is a database interface providing access to (among other databases) the Archäologische Bibliographie, a near-comprehensive bibliographical store of the monograph and peroidical literature of classical archaeology from 1956 to the present day based on the subject catalogue of the library collections of the Deutsches Archaologisches Institut in Rome.
http://www.dyabola.de/en/indexfrm.htm?page=http://www.dyabola.de/en/concept/concept.htm
NESTOR
Nestor is an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. It is published monthly from September to May (each volume covers one calendar year) by the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. It is currently edited by Carol R. Hershenson. The primary geographic nexus of Nestor is the Aegean, including all of Greece, Albania, and Cyprus, the southern area of Bulgaria, and the western and southern areas of Turkey. Nestor includes publications concerning the central and western Mediterranean, southeastern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, western Asia, and other regions of archaeological research, if the specific bibliographic items contain Aegean artifacts, imitations, or influences, or make reference to Aegean comparanda.
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/
IMAGO
Photos of sites, monuments, inscriptions and objects from Rome and the Roman world available from the Roman Society's image bank for teaching and research.
As one of the Roman Society's centenary projects in 2010, a selection of slides from the Roman Society's slide collection in Joint Library was digitised. Since then, further slides have been donated to the collection.
You can search the collection using the keyword search function. There is also a complete list of images with details in the excel spreadsheet which you may download.
https://www.romansociety.org/Imago
NUMISMATICS
Tokens of the Ancient Mediterranean
A database of token types from the ancient Mediterranean, created as part of the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 678042. Tokens of Athens were further supported by the project 'Tokens and their Cultural Biography in Athens from the Classical Age to the End of Antiquity', a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, and received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 794080-2. Tokens of Late Antiquity were supported by the project ‘The Creation of Tokens in Late Antiquity. Religious «tolerance» and «intolerance» in the Fourth and Fifth centuries AD’ and received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840737. The database is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. Coin type data are made available with an Open Database License. All images are copyright of their respective institutions.
https://coins.warwick.ac.uk/token-types/
Token Specimens from the Ancient Mediterranean
A database of token specimens from the ancient Mediterranean, created as part of the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 678042. Tokens of Athens were further supported by the project 'Tokens and their Cultural Biography in Athens from the Classical Age to the End of Antiquity', a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, and received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 794080-2. Tokens of Late Antiquity were supported by the project ‘The Creation of Tokens in Late Antiquity. Religious «tolerance» and «intolerance» in the Fourth and Fifth centuries AD’ and received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840737. The database is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. Coin type data are made available with an Open Database License. All images are copyright of their respective institutions.
https://coins.warwick.ac.uk/token-specimens/
Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire
The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project is a joint initiative of the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Roman Economy Project. It is the brainchild of Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza and is funded by the Augustus Foundation. It intends to fill a major lacuna in the digital coverage of coin hoards from antiquity. It aims to collect information about hoards of all coinages in use in the Roman Empire between approximately 30 BC and AD 400. Imperial coinage forms the main focus of the project, but Iron Age and Roman Provincial coinages in circulation within this period are also included to give a complete picture of the monetary systems of both the West and the East. The Project also includes hoards of Roman coins from outside the Empire to demonstrate Rome's economic and cultural reach. The hoards currently documented contain over 8 million coins. The intention of the Project is to provide the foundations for a systematic Empire-wide study of hoarding and to promote the integration of numismatic data into broader research on the Roman Economy.
https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/content/about
MANTIS
The ANS collections database contains information on more than 600,000 objects in the Society’s collections. These include coins, paper money, tokens, ‘primitive’ money, medals and decorations, from all parts of the world, and all periods in which such objects have been produced.
http://numismatics.org/search/department/Greek
http://numismatics.org/search/department/Roman
ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINAGE ONLINE
The Roman Provincial Coinage project embodies a new conception of Roman coinage. It presents for the first time an authoritative account of the coins minted in the provinces of the empire and shows how they can be regarded as an integral part of the coinage minted under the Roman emperors.
(CRRO) COINAGE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC ONLINE
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO) aims to provide in effect an online version of Michael Crawford's 1974 publication Roman Republican Coinage (RRC), which is still the primary typology used for the identification of Roman Republican coin types. Since its publication in 1974 there have been significant revisions to the dating of the series following the discovery of new hoards, but no attempt has been made to reflect these or make any other amendments to the published typology at this stage. The descriptions for these coins are based on the typology set out in RRC, but have been modified to meet the standards of the British Museum’s collection management system. Additional types not in the British Museum’s collection were added to this database by Richard Witschonke of the ANS.
(OCRE) ONLINE COINS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE), a joint project of the American Numismatic Society and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, is a revolutionary new tool designed to help in the identification, cataloging, and research of the rich and varied coinage of the Roman Empire. The project records every published type of Roman Imperial Coinage from Augustus in 31 BC, until the death of Zeno in AD 491. This is an easy to use digital corpus, with downloadable catalog entries, incorporating over 43,000 types of coins. As of April 2017, OCRE provides links to examples present in nearly 20 American and European databases (both archaeological and museum in context), including the ANS collection, the Münzkabinett of the State Museum of Berlin, and the British Museum, now totalling over 100,000 physical specimens. Between these collections, OCRE is now able to illustrate 50% of the imperial coin types that it contains.http://numismatics.org/ocre/
TRAPEZITES
A ancient currency conversion website and marketplace simulator. Trapezites takes the form of a standard online currency converter, but in this case the conversion is from one ancient currency to another, accompanied by information about purchasing power in antiquity. Created by Giuseppe Carlo Castellano (PhD in Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, 2019).
(DLN) Digital Library Numis
The project Digital Library Numis (DLN) is a specialized portal and depository on open access numismatic books, journals and papers, currently available on the internet. All entries are presented with detailed bibliographic metadata, often supplemented with a brief summary of the contents.
https://sites.google.com/site/digitallibrarynumis/
ECONOMY
OXFORD ROMAN ECONOMY PROJECT DATABASES
As part of the AHRC-funded first phase of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (2005-2010), a number of large databases were compiled, including databases of the Karanis Tax Rolls, of Roman mines and quarries, of shipwrecks, and of olive oil and wine presses. Key element of the second phase of the project (2010-2013) was to make these databases available in online form for scholars, both as a research device for scholars working on issues related to the Roman economy, and as a point of reference for publications resulting from the project.
CITIES; KARANIS TAX ROLLS; MINES; OLIVE OIL/WINE PRESSES; SHIPWRECKS; STONE QUARRIES; WATER TECHNOLOGY
http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/
LAW
Leges Populi Romani
LEPOR (LEges POpuli Romani) est une base de données en cours d’élaboration qui, lorsqu’elle sera achevée, comprendra environ 880 notices, dont chacune sera consacrée à une loi comitiale du peuple romain. Nous entendons par « lois comitiales » les lois et plébiscites votés par le peuple ou par la plèbe et les rogationes qui ont au moins été promulguées. Sont exclues les « lois royales » et les chartes octroyées à des collectivités (souvent appelées leges datae). Les textes législatifs retenus vont de 509 aux lois attribuées à Nerva, et les plébiscites antérieurs à 287 feront l’objet de notices bien qu’ils n’aient pas encore eu valeur normative pour l’ensemble du peuple. Le but est de remplacer l’ouvrage toujours utilisé mais bien vieilli maintenant, de Giovanni Rotondi, Leges publicae populi Romani, Milan, 1912. Il ne s’agit pas seulement d’une mise à jour, puisque la totalité des sources anciennes et de la bibliographie antérieure ou postérieure à Rotondi ont été directement consultées pour la rédaction de notices entièrement originales.
http://www.cn-telma.fr/lepor/accueil/
ROMAN LAW PROJECT
Roman Law branch of the Law-related Internet Project at the University of Saarbrücken. The essential part of this collection of pages is the representation of some fragments of the Corpus Iuris (the collection of laws initiated by the Emperor Justinian) with the apposite parts of the gloss of Accursius. (It is also the most laborious part). As of now, only two fragments of the Digest with glosses are available.
http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/english.html
THE ROMAN LAW LIBRARY
Access to sources of Roman law in original language, and some in translation.
https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/
JOURNALS ONLINE
Helios repository
papers and monographs by Greek scholars or funded by Hellenic foundations. A lot of good stuff!!!
https://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/
CHIRON
After free registration access to many (not all) articles published in Chiron.
DIGIZEITSCHRIFTEN
DigiZeitschriften ist ein Service für das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten. Über einen kontrollierten Nutzerzugang können Studierende und Wissenschaftler auf Kernzeitschriften der deutschen Forschung zugreifen.
https://www.digizeitschriften.de
BIBLIOGRAPHY/SCHOLARSHIP
CIRIS
This database, updated on a regular basis by a team of professional bibliographers, offers its own authority files for numerous items: ancient authors, titles of ancient texts, and ancient or modern editors/translators. The data is aligned and, when relevant, linked to the thesaurus of the BNF, to that of the VIAF, and to numerous other reference tools. The thesaurus of ancient authors is aligned and shared with that of the Pinakes database of the IRHT.
Database of Classical Scholars
The Database of Classical Scholars is a multi-faceted database that aims to provide biographical and bibliographical information on classical scholars from the period associated with classical scholarship as currently understood, from the end of the eighteenth century and the publication of F.A. Wolf's Prolegomena zu Homer (1795) to the current day. Each entry is accompanied by an appreciation of the scholar's career by an expert and where possible, a portrait. This is a work of international cooperation with an advisory committee composed of experts in the history of classical scholarship not only in North America, but in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. The project is endorsed by the Society for Classical Studies.
CASE STUDIES/COMPLEX PROJECTS
Pompeii in Color
Pompeii in Color: The Life of Roman Painting presents frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. All originally from Roman homes, the subjects of these works range from mythological scenes to landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and more, each rich with meaning for homeowners and their guests.
https://www.pompeiiincolor.com
DIGITAL MARMOR PARIUM
Sub-project of the DFHG, led by the University of Leipzig. The aim of the project is to provide images and drawings of the inscription, and digital data about named entities (geographical and personal names), chronological expressions, and linguistic information preserved by the text of the Parian Marble.
http://www.digitalmarmorparium.org/index.html#main
Homeric Speech Presentation
Digital humanities have rich and largely unexplored potential for philological research in Classics. I hope that making my database of all the speeches presented in the Homeric epics available online will offer a specific example of how new technological tools can enable Classicists to develop innovative and fruitful approaches to the enduring questions that are central to our discipline. My book, Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic (University of Texas Press, 2012), explores how various ways of depicting speech shape the narratives in the Homeric poems; similarly, this database and the kinds of questions it allowed me to ask has shaped the scholarly narrative in my book. I hope that making it directly available to all will shape future scholarly inquiries, and that users of the database will tell me how they have used it and what kinds of questions it has helped them to explore. (By Prof. Dr. Deborah Beck)
https://homeric-speech-beck.la.utexas.edu/search
(CGRN) Collection of Greek Ritual Norms
The project issues from the reassessment of a category of inscriptions which have come to fore in the study of ancient Greek religion. These are the texts known as leges sacrae or “sacred laws”, collected by F. Sokolowski in the 1950s and 60s (LSAM, LSS, LSCG), and more recently by E. Lupu in 2005 (NGSL). The validity and the utility of this epigraphical category has recently been questioned (cf. especially Parker 2004 and see also Harris 2015). Articles published as part of the preliminary investigations of the CGRN project have broadened this discussion. Please consult: “Beyond Greek ‘Sacred Laws’”, “Codifying ‘Sacred Laws’”, and “Two Notes on the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN)” to be read with Parker 2018b. In the present collection, instead of remaining under the lens of “sacred laws”, we have chosen to focus on the normative character of inscriptions relating to ancient Greek rituals. We have focussed in particular on the two large subjects of sacrifice and purification, though texts concerning other normative aspects of Greek religion and rituals are occasionally included. The result of this reappraisal is an original Digital Humanities resource, initially funded (2012-2016) by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (Belgium), which now (2017-) continues under the aegis of the Collège de France (Paris) and the University of Liège. The Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN) is a website which conforms to the general guidelines of TEI Epidoc XML and its content is peer-reviewed. Its primary goal is to gather epigraphical material for the study of Greek rituals and to make these sources widely available, in a clear and accessible form, with translations in English and in French (for some conventions, see here). In addition, the Collection aims to innovate by providing detailed, research-oriented tools for scholars wishing to investigate the two principal subjects of sacrifice and purification, notably the extensive lists of “Themes” identifiable under the “Browse” and “Search” functionalities of the website. To orient yourself and to consult the conceptual “Themes” analysed in the CGRN, please click here. You are cordially invited to browse, search, or simply to start exploring, for example, the sacrificial rituals in the calendar of Thorikos, CGRN 32, or the purifications listed in the regulation from Kos, CGRN 85 (for a concordance, see here).
(RAP) Roman Attica Project
The Roman Attica Project (RAP) is a research project conducted at the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation and coordinated by the Programme Economy and Society in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods with the participation of researchers and academics from various institutions in Greece and abroad. The project aims to fill a gap in the research which so far mostly focused on Hellenistic and Classical Athens and its Roman monuments. However, there are more than 1500 sites and findspots all over Attica dating to the Roman period, but there has never been any thorough analysis of this evidence as a whole. To that end, an extensive network of scholars will investigate the entire region of Attica, including the asty, from the Late Hellenistic to the Late Roman period. Attica and its political centre are examined from a historical and archaeological perspective. The RAP addresses questions related to various aspects of society, economy, spatial organisation: the social groups that were active in various sites of Attica, their relations with Rome, legal aspects of everyday life, sanctuaries, cemeteries, as well as economic and financial factors, rural and urban productive units, harbours, mines, and quarries. The project aims to generate open-access online databases which derive from the studies of the research team and to visualize these outputs on interactive maps. Workshops, seminars, and a series of publications will further promote the function of RAP as a hub for disseminating research on Roman Attica and Athens.