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Access to digital catalogues of the British Museum’s collections, among others, Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt or Roman Republican Coins. Click here to access the Portable Antiquities Scheme Website run by the British Museum and National Museum of Wales (on archaeological objects found by members of the public).
Access to digital catalogues of the British Museum’s collections such as, among others, Drawings by Rembrandt and His School and Russian Icons in the British Museum.
Instrumentum is a working group that comprises scholars interested in the crafts and industries of ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. The chronological scope covers the European Iron Age and the eras of Greek and Roman civilization, with some overlap into the late Bronze Age and the early Middle Ages.
The ADA (Archivio di Documentazione Archeologica/Archaeological Data Archives), developed in and by the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, gives access to document sources on Roman archaeology and history, in particular the excavations in the city of Rome in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The “Giornali degli scavi” archival documents, 1873–1935, are fully digitized and accessible online.
The census collection of data—see above—has been extended by the antique monuments known to Johann Joachim Winckelmann and his contemporaries. The Corpus Winckelmann compiles the knowledge of antique works of art in the seventeenth and eighteenth century in both visual and written documentation, focusing on the writings of Winckelmann, the founder of classical archaeology and modern art history. Alongside approximately 9,500 quotations from Winckelmann, the database provides about 5,000 further document entries from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which contain a total of about 2,700 monuments.
The complete digital Loeb Classical Library is fully accessible via the Library’s subscription. More than 520 volumes of Latin and Greek texts with English translation are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content. Furthermore, new Loeb editions are added twice a year. Additionally, the 275 public domain Loebs are freely available through this list of downLOEBable Loeb volumes.
The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DAMRC), edited by Michael McCormick, Leland Grigoli, Giovanni Zambotti, et al., makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a GIS approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.
Boscoreale and Boscotrecase: Centro Studi Archeologici.
Herculaneum: AGP (Ancient Graffiti Project) ; MAV (Museo Archeologico Virtuale) ; Parco Archeologico di Ercolano (official site) ; and the Friends of Herculaneum Society.
Pompei: AGP (Ancient Graffiti Project) ; Blogging Pompeii ; PALP (Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project ; PARP: PS (Pompeii Archaeological Research Project : Porta Stabia) ; PBMP (Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project) ; Pompeiiinpictures ; pompeiisites, provided by the Soprintendenza Speciale Beni Archeologici Pompei—Ercolano—Stabia. The project itself aims at the protection and enhancement of the Pompeii Archaeological Area, and its official website offers many data and downloadable documents related to the ancient towns in the Vesuvio area. Click here for a virtual tour ; PQP (Pompeii Quadriporticus Project) ; and Soprintendenza Archeologia della Campania and Polo museale della Campania.
RIDE is a review journal dedicated to digital editions and resources. It aims to direct attention to digital editions and to provide a forum in which expert peers criticize and discuss the efforts of digital editors in order to improve current practices and advance future developments.
Structurae is a database for works of structural and civil engineering, but also contains many other works of importance or interest of the fields of architecture and public works. This site is mostly concerned with the structural aspects of the works documented here and the technical aspects of their construction and design. At the same time, Structurae takes into account the social, historic, and architectural context.