CLASSICAL STUDIES
ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT ART INDEXES & DATABASES
Please check the indexes and databases on the CLASSICAL STUDIES ARTICLE INDEXES & DATABASES subject page, too. In addition to important Classical Studies indexes and databases that will definitely have information on this research area, there are a number of major databases that index periodicals covering many subjects.
AATA Online Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
“…comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.”
Emphasis on the ancient Near East. Indexes and provides access to e-books, websites, reports on archaeological sites, articles, etc. ETANA Core Texts are also available.
Ancient Greek costume : an annotated bibliography, 1784-2005 (Linda Jones Roccos)
CLASS Reference Z5694.G74 2006
Annual Egyptological Bibliography. 1947-
CLASS Reference Z3656 .A2A6
Anthropology Plus (OCLC)
Coverage of Mediterranean archaeology
Archeologie de l'Afrique antique. 1975-1980
CLASS Reference OVERSIZE Z3501 .A7
Bibliography of African ancient history and antiquities
Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser (Perseus)
“Look through a massive library of art objects, sites, and buildings. The library's catalogs document 1305 coins, 1909 vases, 2003 sculptures, 179 sites, 140 gems, and 424 buildings. Each catalog entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images. Descriptions and images have been produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions, and scholars. Catalog information and keywords have been taken from standard sources, which are cited in the entries for each object.”
Broad coverage of the field includes ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology
Thousands of images from museums and art --- internationally.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (WilsonWeb)
Beazley Archive (Classical Art Research Centre)
Bibliographie Altagypten, 1822-1946 (Christine Beinlich-Seeber) 3 v.
CLASS Reference Z3657.A8 B45 1998 supposedly covered by CD: Egyptological bibliography ( note below)
Bibliographie analytique de l'Afrique antique 1961‑ CLASS Reference Z3511 .B5
Bibliography of African ancient history and antiquities
A bibliography of Mesopotamian archaeological sites (Richard S. Ellis)
CLASS Reference Oversize Z3039.A8 E5
Bibliography of the History of Art
BIAB Online: British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) This new database not only supports art history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. It covers antiquity to the present.
Census of Antique Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance (Projekt Dyabola)
“searchable bibliography of the Bronze Age archaeology of mainland Greece and Crete”
Datenbank der attischen Grabreliefs des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.
Access through Dyabola main page. “… individual entries in the database allow rapid access to complex, iconographic, epigraphic, social, chronological and geographic aspects. The descriptions of the picture motifs distinguish simple motifs, types and patterns which can be called up individually and in combination. In addition, over 900 descriptive and typological terms were specially developed on the material. Allocations and determinations are justified in a monograph by the author. The book and the database can be mutually checked, whereby the database comprises more monuments and pictures.”
Egyptological bibliography = Ägyptologische Bibliographie = Bibliographie Égyptologique
CLASS CD-ROM Station (CD-ROM ed. of: Annual Egyptological bibliography, and Bibliographie Altägypten, 1822-1946)
Fasti archaeologici
CLASS Reference Index DE2 .F3
Coverage: 1946-86.
An archaeological database for current fieldwork in Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Croatia, Albania, and Slovenia. Fasti Online web-based GIS database that contains a basic record sheet for each site excavated for any period in a given year with, the interim report for the year, together with any further documentation the director wishes to add. Sites range from the Upper Palaeolithic to the nineteenth century. Sites are searchable by project name, by period and type of site, and by clickable maps which provide an overview of the excavation locations. Projects from 2000 on; also included is bibliography on current projects.
FRANCIS (OCLC)
International index covering the humanities and social sciences. 1984- Updated monthly.
Indexes over 4,300 journals.
Greek and Roman art, architecture, and archaeology: an annotated bibliography (William D.E. Coulson, Patricia N. Freiert)
CLASS Reference N5610 .C65 1987
The history and art of glass: index of periodical articles, 1956-1979 (Louise K. Bush and Paul N. Perrot)
CLASS Reference Z6046 .C65 1982
Corning Museum of Glass bibliography.
Journal of Glass Studies
CLASS Journals NK5103 .J6
Metis: QVTR Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
Mycenean civilization, an annotated bibliography, through 2002 (B. Feuer)
CLASS Reference Z2260 .F48 2004
Nestor, Bibliography Of Aegean Prehistory & Related Areas
Published by the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
OhioLINK DMC: Art and Architecture
Oriental Institute Research Archives
Scipio, art and Rare Books Sales catalogs
SIBYL: the database of classical iconography.1998
CLASS CD-ROM Station
TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
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