Research Databases & Digital Collections

International bibliography of theology and religious studies.

AIO (Attic Inscriptions Online) ; AshLi (online catalog of the Latin inscriptions in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) ; AXON : Greek historical inscriptions ; Carmina Latina epigraphica Galliae and Hispaniae ; CEIPoM (Corpus of the epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st millennium BCE, covering Messapic, Venetic, Sabellic languages and epigraphic Latin up to about 100 BCE) ; CII (Cretan institutional inscriptions) ; CIL : digitized volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and the official CIL site of the BBAW ; Corpus of Attic vase inscriptions ; CPI (Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions) ; DB (Epigraphic Database Bari, specialized in Christian inscriptions of Rome) ; DOL (Dodona OnLine) ; EDAK (Epigraphische Datenbank zum Antiken Kleinasien) ; EDF : epigraphic database FALSAE ; EDR (Epigraphic Database Roma) plus Italia Epigrafica Digitale ; epigraphia3D : inscriptions in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida and the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid ; epigraphica 3.0 : corpus of the inscriptions of the province of Ourense, Spain ; GVCyr (Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica), IGCyr (Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica) and IGCyr2 (second edition) ; HepOnl (Hispania Epigraphica Online) plus Hispania epigraphica (periodical publication) ; ICG (Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae) ; IG (Inscriptiones Graecae) ; InsAph (Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, including the late Roman and Byzantine inscriptions) ; InsLib (Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) ; Inscriptions of Israel / Palestine, 500 BCE to 614 AD (Brown University) ; IOSPE (Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea) ; IRCyr (Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica) ; I.Sicily ; RIB online (volume I of The Roman Inscriptions of Britain by R. G. Collingwood and R. P. Wright (1955) plus the addenda and corrigenda) ; SIRAR (Sylloge inscriptionum religionis Africae Romanae) ;Telamon (ancient Greek inscriptions from Bulgaria) ; WPAIP (Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project). For further information, please consult the individual sites.

Acropolis Museum, Athens ; BnF : Bibliothèque nationale de France, médailles & et antiques ; the British Museum, London ; Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens ; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Cornell University Library's collections of antiquities ; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles ; Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Baltimore ; Louvre, Paris ; The Met NY : Greek & Roman Art ; Musei Capitolini, Rome ; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze: Aegean collections ; Rijksmuseum van oudheiden, Amsterdam ; Rijksmuseum van oudheiden, Leiden ; Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel ; Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung, Berlin: sculpture, ancient bronzes ; Uffizi, Florence ; Ure Museum of Greek antiquities, University of Reading ; The Walters Art Museum : Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire [...].

Access to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection of Greek and Roman art.

Ludus and Locus ludi are databases on ancient boardgames, providing a wide range of resources (bibliographies, dictionaries, iconographical databases, information on conferences, exhibitions, and more). A project at the Université de Fribourg. See also the digital luderne project (Maastricht Universiity).

arches is an open-source software platform freely available for cultural-heritage organizations to independently deploy to help them manage their cultural-heritage data. arches is developed jointly by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund. For more information, please visit the arches website.

Research on fishing and fish-canning industry in Roman times. Database, useful links, and latest news.

An interface for the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Project, on digitizing the medieval manuscript collections of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collection Libraries (PACSCL).

ArcHerNet (Archaeological Heritage Network) is a consortium of leading German institutions working on the preservation of cultural heritage. Coordinated by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Check the website for current projects, conferences, publications, and useful links.

For Athens and Attical see below. Some websites and digital collections concerning archaeological and historical research in Greece : archetai : the Archaeological Society at Athens ; Archaeology in Greece online (EFA, the École française d'Athènes jointly with the BSA, the British School at Athens) ; AXON (Greek historical inscriptions) ; BSA (The British School at Athens) digital collections ; Chypre (the French excavations at Kition and Salamis on Cyprus) ; Corinthian matters ; DOL (Dodona OnLine) ; ESAG : archaeological reports of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (Eretria, Amarynthos, else) ; excavations in Ancient Corinth (ASCSA) ; excavations at Isthmia by the University of Chicago and by Michigan State University ; excavations at Lefkandi ; excavations at Olynthos ; excavations at Samothrace ; Iklaina archaeological project ; INSTAP SCEC : Study Center for East Crete ; Koutsonglia, Kenchreai (Greek-American excavation project) plus the Kenchreai ceramic catalog ; Kyprios character (on archaeology, history, numismatics of Ancient Cyprus ; Marmor Parium (digital marmor parium) ; Nemea Center for classical archaeology ; Olympia : Grabungsgeschichte(n)  diaries of the excavations 1875 and 1876 ; the Sikyon project ; [...]