Research Databases & Digital Collections

Some resources on magic : CBD (Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database) ; CENOB (Corpus des énoncés barbares : multilingual database (Latin, Greek, Demotic, Coptic, Syriac, Hebrew, Aramaic) of onomata barbara) ; Charaktêres (on magical signs) ; Coptic magical papyri ; Curse tablets of Roman Britain ; Curses in context ; Kyprianos database of ancient ritual texts ; LMPG (online version of Léxico de magia y religión en los papiros mágicos griegos, anejo 5 of DGE) ; Magia agressiva nel mondo antico ; ML (Magica Levantina) ; Tabella defixionis project ; TheDefix ; TMmagic ; To zodion ; Transmission of magical knowledge in antiquity ; [...]

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. Held at the University of Warsaw.

Some antiquities went through true journeys, buried for centuries before being discovered, sold, given, from collections to collections to the display cases of current museums. A patient work about their auctions makes it possible to find today these crossed stories. Issued by the INHA (Institut national d'histoire de l'art) and the Louvre.

A digital catalog of Dumbarton Oaks' collection of Byzantine and early Islamic textiles, ranging from the 2nd to the 17th centuries, from Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Byzantine heartlands. 

A digital catalog of Dumbarton Oaks' collection of Byzantine and early Islamic textiles, ranging from the 2nd to the 17th centuries, from Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Byzantine heartlands. 

APN (Ancient Polychromy Network) ; Golden edition of Gods in Color, a project of the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt (see also here) ; Trackingcolour : project at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (see also here) ; [...]

An initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.

More than 300,000 digital objects (manuscripts, historical documents, books, icons and other sacred heirlooms) preserved at Mont Athos.

ARWA : The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia ; BATHS : Database of Roman to Early Islamic Bathhouses of Iudaea / Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia ; Bibliographia iranica ; the CBRL provides access to monographs on research in and on Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus ; see also the CBRL Bulletin ; EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa ; Holy Land : A digital corpus of early Christian churches and monasteries in the Holy Land ; IIP (Inscriptions from Israel / Palestine) ; Palmyra excavations archive (Aarhus) ; patrimonie Proche-Orient ; sasanika : late antique Near East project ; YDEA (Yale digital Dura Europos Archive) [...]

Reference work in the field of Iranian Studies. Open access.