Archaeometallurgical resources
This page provides details and links to all the publicly accessible data, tools, and resources managed by the FLAME Project. It also links to other important archaometallurgical resources curated at the Research Lab in Oxford and further afield.
Ancient World Image Bank
A collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database (BAPD)
The BAPD is the world’s largest database of ancient Greek painted pottery (‘Greek vases’).
Byzantine Seals Online Catalogue
Dumbarton Oaks is home to the most important collection of Byzantine lead seals in the world, numbering some 17,000 specimens.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
A database operated by the Classical Art Research Centre (CARC) on behalf of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI), via which over 400 digitized catalogues of ancient pottery from 24 countries can be made freely available.
Isotòpia. A Stable Isotope Database for Classical Antiquity
Isotòpia is an open-access database that contains more than 33,000 stable isotope measurements of bioarchaeological remains dating back to Classical Antiquity (c. 800 BCE – 500 CE). The database collects δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, δ34S, 87Sr/86Sr, 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/206Pb, and 208Pb/206Pb isotopic measurements from human, animal, and plant archaeological remains.
Online Coins of the Roman Empire
It is a revolutionary new tool designed to help in the identification, cataloguing, and research of the rich and varied coinage of the Roman Empire. The project will ultimately record every published type of Roman Imperial Coinage from Augustus in 31 BC, until the death of Zeno in AD 491. This will create an easy to use digital corpus, with downloadable catalogue entries, incorporating almost 50,000 types of coins.
ORBIS
The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity.
Papyri.info
It is an extensive digital text collection of Greek and Latin documentary papyri, that is, ancient documents (accounts, petitions, tax receipts, letters, etc.) dating from the IV century BC to the VIII century AD, mostly written on papyrus, and mainly discovered in archaeological excavations in Egypt.
Roman Inscriptions in Britain
This website hosts multiple corpora of Roman inscriptions from Britain.
Roman Provincial Coinage
Online database of Roman Empire coinage.
Virtual Catalogue of Roman Coins (VCRC)
Contains images and descriptions of coins from the Early Republic up to the end of the 4th century A.D.
