Research Databases & Digital Collections

textile-dates : A database on radiocarbon dated and historical-dated textiles (first millennium BC and AD). Run by the Abteilung Christliche Archäologie der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; further info on the project Kontextil. See additionally the ATN/ATR (Archaeological Textiles Newsletter, since 2012: Archaeological Textiles Review) volumes, issued by the CTR (Centre for Textile Research), University of Copenhagen. See further ARTEX (Hellenistic Center for research and conservation of archaeological textiles), that publishes also the specialized journal Arachne, the TCR (Textile Research Centre, Leiden), and CIETA (Centre international d’etude des textiles anciens, Lyon), offering a wealth of resoures on historical textiles research.

Mapping the Ancient Jewish World project (586 BCE–650 CE), focusing on the archaeological material. Department of History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Travelers’ accounts and views (fifteenth to twentieth centuries) on places, monuments, and people in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Asia Minor, South Italy (Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation).

The PBE I Online edition presents the research output of the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire project, 641–867 (King’s College London, 1989 to 2001). For the period between 1025 and 1180, click here to access the Prosopography of the Byzantine World database.

The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) offers an easier and deeper access to the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG).

Curses in context ; Curse tablets of Roman Britain ; Tabella defixionis project ; TheDefix (Thesaurus defixionum) ; TheDeMa (Thesaurus defixionum Magdeburgensis); [...]

The project’s aim is to enhance our understanding of the physical process of working stone in the Roman period. The site provides information on monuments and sites, tools, materials, techniques of production, and more.

The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), founded in 1972, is the leading research institution for underwater archaeology. See the site for the INA's projects, publications, and more.

The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL), based in in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, in collaboration with partners at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Florence is digitizing in 3D the complete collection of Greek and Roman sculpture in the Uffizi, Pitti Palace, and Boboli Gardens on behalf of the Gallerie degli Uffizi.

The APR (Amici populi Romani) is a database for the prosopography of the foreign friends of the Romans (3rd c. BCE to 4th c. CE), offering also several specific prosopographical material.
Athenian Onomasticon : updates the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II (1994) and Foreign Residents of Athens (1996).
Athenians Project : a prosopographical database on the persons of ancient Athens.
CPNRB : a database of the Celtic personal names of Roman Britain.
The primary objective of the DPRR (Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic, King’s College London; Prof. Mouritsen and Dr Robb) 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.
LGPN : Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, from the 8th century BC down to the late Roman republic, plus LGPN-Ling.
PBE I: Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, 641-867.
PBW : Prosopography of the Byrantine World, 1025-1180.
PIR : Prosopographia Imperii Romani, the official website with searchable database provided by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
PMBZ : Prosopographie der Mittelbyzantinischen Zeit : a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Byzantine Empire 641-1025 CE.
PPRET Inscriptions : Inscriptions pertaining to the Praetorian Praefects from 284 to 395 AD.
Roman Bastards Database : 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.
Romans 1by1 : on the population of Moesia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Dacia and some urban centers in Pannonia Superior.