Research Databases & Digital Collections

EDF : Epigraphic database falsae : database of epigraphic forgeries produced across Italy from medieval to present times ; EDV : Epigraphic database vernacular : covering inscriptions produced in Italy between the 9th and the 15th centuries, both public and private.  

Maintained by Derek B. Counts, professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Click here for databases of images and museums and click here for lists of open access resources for Cypriot studies. 

The platform gives access to the vast collection of icons, manuscripts, and liturgical objects from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, bringing together the archive material from the Michigan-Princeton-Alexandria-Expeditions to Sinai in the 50ies and 60ies.

On looting of archaeological sites, the theft of art and antiquities, and all sorts of crime and legal entanglement related to cultural objects. Run by Donna Yates. See also her blog "Anonymous Swiss Collector". 

AGRW (Associations in the Greco-Roman world, by Philip Harland) ; Ghent database of Roman guilds ; Inventory of ancient associations (approx. 500 BC–AD 300, provides information on locations, members, terms of membership, activities, built and visual spaces, epigraphical evidence and much more ; hosted by the University of Copenhagen) ; [...]

DWhG (Deutsche Wasserhistorische Gesellschaft) ; Frontinus-Gesellschaft (International Society for the History of Water, Energy and Piping Technology) ; ROMAQ (The Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts) [...]

Diotíma : a resource for information in women, gender, sex, sexualities, and more as well as intersections among these in the ancient Mediterranean world. EuGeStA is an international network which brings together scholars working on gender studies in different disciplines of classical antiquity (language and literature, philosophy, history, art history, history of religion, law, medicine and more), providing a lot of useful resources. See also the open access journal EuGeStA ; Women in antiquity ; [...]

On agonistic networks in the ancient, postclassical world (300 BC-AD 300). Hosted by the University of Groningen.

Adriaticum mare ; ancient ports antiques ; archeologia subacquea ; atlas PALM (Atlas du patrimonie archéologique littoral méditerranéen); benthos : digital atlas of ancient waters ; immensa aequora ; INA (Institute of Nautical Archaeology) ; MedPorts : ancient Mediterranean ports ; NAVIS I, NAVIS II, NAVIS III ; ramppa : fishing and fish-canning industry in antiquity ; [...]