Research Databases & Digital Collections

Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo (ALIM), translated as the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages, aims to provide free online access to all the Latin texts produced in Italy during the Middle Ages (eighth to fifteenth century). For several centuries, Latin represented the only language in which, in addition to historical documentation, many of the major creations of thought, science, and literature of the Middle Ages were expressed. Jointly run by several Italian universities (Verona, Naples [Suor Orsola Benincasa], Palermo, Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Siena-Arezzo).

ToposText is an indexed collection of ancient texts and mapped places relevant to the history and mythology of the ancient Greeks (issued by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation).

Pharos is an international consortium of fourteen European and North American art-historical photo archives committed to creating a digital research platform allowing for comprehensive consolidated access to photo archive images and their associated scholarly documentation. The collections collectively contain approximately 31 million images (works of art and architecture, the history of photography itself).

Pharos is an international consortium of fourteen European and North American art-historical photo archives committed to creating a digital research platform allowing for comprehensive consolidated access to photo archive images and their associated scholarly documentation. The collections collectively contain approximately 31 million images (works of art and architecture, the history of photography itself).

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a United States–based project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It is a discovery tool for public domain and openly licensed content held by American archives, libraries, museums, and other institutions. It was started by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society in 2010.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images and data that document the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities. To access the enormous collections of the Met, click here. To learn more about its open access policy, click here.

The International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period (IARPotHP) is a consortium of international specialists in the field of hellenistic pottery with the goal to promote research and spread knowledge of this field. IARPotHP was founded in 2011 by a group of seven archaeologists from six countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, and the United States). It has its seat in Würzburg, Germany, and is an independent, nonprofit organization. IARPotHP presents an annual bibliography on hellenistic pottery (since 2012) and organizes conferences at regular intervals.

The Centre Alexandrin d’Étude des Amphores (Alexandrian Centre for Amphora Studies) issues this database dedicated to the amphorae of Alexandria and the eastern Mediterranean, offering, among others, a searchable database for the matrices of stamps of Rhodian eponyms and producers and the amphora stamps of Delos.

Fabrics of the Central Mediterranean (Facem) is a database for specialists of Greek, Punic, and Roman pottery, housed by the University of Vienna in Austria. The project’s aim is to give an overview of production centers in the central Mediterranean region by presenting images and descriptions of fabrics.

The Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (CSIR) is an international academic enterprise begun over fifty years ago, aiming to document the immense sculptural heritage of the Roman Empire. These webpages are hosted by the Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford, on behalf of the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC).