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Greco-Roman Art Resources

Online

  • Oxford Bibliographies
  • Greek Originals and Roman Copies
  • Oxford Art Online
  • Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum)
    Graphic display of human presence since the Paleolithic (ca. 20,000 years ago). Well-known and lesser-known periods and societies covered.
  • Art & Architecture Source
    Searchable database.
  • Arachne
    The object database of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
  • ArtSTOR.
    Database of Images.
  • Artefacts
    French database of “petits objets archéologiques.”
  • Beazley Archive
    Includes the world’s largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.
  • Perseus Art and Archaeology
    Perseus contains thousands of images and descriptions of vases, coins, sculpture, buildings, and sites.
  • Portable Antiquities Scheme Database
    Searchable database of artefacts found by metal-detectorists in the UK. Multi-period coverage.
  • AATA Online Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
    Abstracts from books, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, and more, on the conservation and preservation of works of art, material culture and archaeological and architectural sites. Includes all volumes of AATA and its predecessor, IIC Abstracts.
  • The Art of the Hellenistic period (Metropolitan Museum)
    An excellent online visual guide to Hellenistic art.
  • Images of Roman Emperors
    By Justin Paola (Univ. of Arizona), is a list of Roman Emperors with dates and images.
  • Amphoras, Other Pottery, and Ancient Lamps
    • Amphorae ex Hispania
      Some websites on the study of Greek and Roman amphoras, pottery, and lamps
    • Ancient Lamps
    • CEAlex
      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.
    • FACEM (Fabrics of the Central Mediterranean)
      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.
    • FARLI Ancient Pottery Database
    • IARPotHP (International Assoc.for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period)
      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.
    • Opus doliare signatum (on finds from Rome, Ostia, and Central Italy)
    • RCRF (Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, dedicated to Roman pottery)
    • R.T.A.R. (Recueil de Timbres sur Amphores Romaines)
    • SECAH (Sociedad de Estudios de la Cerámica Antigua en Hispania)
    • SFÉCAG (Société Française d’Étude de la Céramique Antique en Gaule)
    • Terres d’Amphores
  • Ancient Graffiti Project
    This is a digital resource for locating and studying graffiti of the early Roman empire from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
  • Ancient Sculpture Association
    The Ancient Sculpture Association (ASA) is an international platform aiming to promote the study of ancient sculpture.
  • Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database
    Named after the American scholar Campbell Bonner, the primary aim of this project is to bring the entire corpus of magical gems online in order to make them better accessible for both scholars and the public, and to facilitate their study through the potentials offered by a digital database.
  • Classical Art Research Centre
    The Classical Art Research Centre at the University of Oxford houses, among others, the Beazley Archive, which includes the world’s largest collection of images of ancient vase-painting.
  • Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi
    The Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi was determined for collection and publication of sarcophagi of the Roman Empire by the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) in 1870. In cooperation with the DAI, the CoDArchLab (Arachne) takes part in the reconception of the Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi.
  • Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani
    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).
  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum—CVA online
    This resource contains approximately 250 out-of-print volumes of the CVA in a searchable digitized format. New fascicles may be added at the discretion of the publishing museums.
  • Digital Cicognara Library
    The Digital Cicognara Library is an international initiative to recreate in digital form the remarkable private book collection of Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834). Cicognara’s collection of some five thousand early imprints still comprises the foundational literature of art and archaeology.
  • Last Statues of Antiquity
    The Last Statues of Antiquity project (University of Oxford, R. R. R. Smith and Bryan Ward-Perkins) investigates all evidence for new statuary of the period circa 280–650 AD, as well as the slow decline (and eventual death) of the ancient statue-habit. The aim of the project is to document and examine the remarkable changes in the way statues were used in late antiquity, in the context of contemporary historical and cultural developments. Changes in the statue-habit indeed provide a very effective way of charting and envisaging the broader transformations that created first “Late Antiquity” and eventually the “End of Antiquity” itself. The searchable database of the published evidence for statuary and inscribed statue bases set up after AD 284, that were new, newly dedicated, or newly re-worked, was completed and made public in May 2012 (with only some minor revisions thereafter). In the meantime, the book Last Statues of Antiquity has been published, too (see AAR Library catalog).
  • Museum Collections
  • In Print

    • Greek Art and Archaeology. Pedley, John Griffiths. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993; 1998 (2nd ed.).
      Classmark: LRG DF130 PED
      Covers art and architecture from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.
    • Greek architecture. Lawrence, A. W. Yale University Press, 1996 Classmark: LRG NA 270 LAW
    • A Handbook of Greek Art. Richter, Gisela M.A. 9th ed. New York : Da Capo, 1987
      Classmark: N 5630 RIC
      Richter covers all aspects of Greek art from 1100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.
    • Art and archaeology of the Greek world: a new history, c.2500-c.150 BCE. Neer, Richard T. 2012
      Classmark: N5630 nee