Research Databases & Digital Collections

Some sites on epigraphic material, issued by various institutions: AIEGL (Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine) ; AVI (Attic Vase Inscriptions) ; CoDE (Center of Digital Epigraphy) ; the site Current Epigraphy lists conferences, workshops, lectures, and links ; DPRR (Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic, King’s College) ; DUCTUS (Association internationale pour l'étude des inscriptions mineures) ; EAGLE (Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) ; EDCS (Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby) ; EDH (Epigraphic Database Heidelberg) ; europeana — eagle project ; the epigraphic landscape of Athens (focusing on the relationship between public inscriptions and urban space in ancient Athens) ; EpRom (Epigraphica Romana) ; IGLS (Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie) ; PETRAE (Institut Ausonius, France) ; PHI (Packard Humanities Institute searchable database) ; PPRET inscriptions (inscriptions pertaining to the praetorian praefects, 284-395 AD) ; Saxa loquuntur ; and the US Epigraphy Project.
See also the collection of corpora and the collection of squeezes in the entries below.

... digital catalog of the museum's Aegean collections, plus the Digital Archive for the Aegean Collections: DBAS-ACF.

AFE (Antike Fundmünzen in Europa, issued by the RGK and the DAI) ; AGCO (Antigonid coins online) ; ANS (American Numismatic Society) with MANTIS, the database of its collections and the Digital Library ; the Badian Collection (at Rutgers University) ; CoinHoards (Greek coin hoards) ; CHRE : Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire (Oxford University) CHRR : Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic ; CNT (Corpus Nummorum Thracorum, issued by the BBAW and the MK-B) ; CRRO (Coinage of the Roman Republic Online, an online version of Crawford’s RRC 1974) ; DIANA (Digital Iconographic Atlas of Numismatics in Antiquity) ; Dumbarton Oaks collection of Byzantine coins ; HNO (Historia Nummorum Online, focusing on France and funded by the LaScArBx) ; HRC (Hellenistic Royal Coinages, based at the ANS) ; IACB (Iron Age coins in Britain, hosted by the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford) ; IGCH (Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, open and accessible version of the IGCH 1973) ; John Max Wulfing Coin Collection (Washington University in St. Louis) ; MANTIS (the ANS collections database) ; MK-B (online catalog to the collections of the Münzkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, one of the largest numismatic collections in the world) ; MK-TUE (digital coin cabinet of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, EKU Tübingen) ; NUMiD and NUMiD coin cabinet (joint network of numismatic collections held in Germany's universities) ; Numismatic literature (ANS, 1947-2007) ; OCRE (Online Coins of the Roman Empire, from Augustus to Zeno, joint project of the ANS and the ISAW at New York University) ; OGC (Online Greek Coinage) ; PCO (Ptolemaic Coins Online) ; PELLA (coinage of the Macedonian kings) ; Portale Numismatico dello Stato ; RPC (Roman Provincial Coinage Online, University of Oxford) ; RRC (Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum) ; SCO (Seleucid Coins Online, based at the ANS) ; SNG (Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, a British Academy research project) ; Università di Parma, Museo di Archeologia : collezione numismatica ; and VCRC (Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins).

Amicus (Canada, containing theses as well) ; ArchaeologicalTraces (mainly prehistory) ; Art history dissertations from North American institutions ; CRL’s (Center for Research Libraries) online catalog for dissertations ; DART-Europe ; Dissertation express (to order dissertations from UMI) ; Durham University e-theses (full text to many, but not all) ; EthOS (the British Library’s e-theses online service) ; heiDOK (German universities) ; NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations); PQDT (open access dissertations at ProQuest); and theres.fr (France).

Some maps and digital topographic material on the ciy of Rome in classical antiquity, created by various authors or institutions: Anteiquae Urbis Imago (Pirro Ligorio, 1773 edition) ; Carta Archeologica di Roma, issued by the superindendency (the site links also to many additional material, such as excavation documents and archival material) ; DescriptioRomae, based on the Catasto Urbano Pio Gregoriano ; Digitale Topographie der Stadt Rom ; FastiOnline ; Images of Rome : the Rodolfo Lanciani Archive ; info.roma.it (maps from various times and many other material) ; the Interactive Nolli Map ; Linking Evidence ; Mapping the Via Appia ; Paths through Rome, focusing on the structural organization of Rome’s urban space in the travel literature from the seventh to the sixteenth century (topoi) ; Rome: Cities in Text, focusing on travel literature (University of Notre Dame) ; SITAR : Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico di Roma ; the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae ; the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project ; and VirtualRome. For further information, see the websites.

The Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (CPhCl), an international network, is an encyclopedic lexicon collecting the bio-bibliographical data about classicists.

Focusing on parts of the body, anatomical votive objects, cosmetics, and more in the ancient world.

Byzantinische Epigrammatik (ÖAW) ; DBBE (Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, hosted by Gent University) ; Pinakes (hosted by the IRHT); [...].

NAVIS I and NAVIS II are databases on the archaeology of ships, shipwrecks, and nautical archaeology. NAVIS III is a database on Roman coins with depiction of ships (run by the RGZM).

The Leon Levy Dead Scea Scrolls Digital Library offers access to the scroll fragments.