Papyrology, Epigraphy & Greek Vases

Abbreviations Used in Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

American Society of Papyrologists
The ASP was founded in 1961 to further the study of ancient Greek and Latin papyri. The ASP publishes The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP), and the monograph series, American Studies in Papyrology, plus occasional supplements to BASP.

The Beazley Archive
The Beazley Archive is the largest single collection of images (over 27,000)  from Greek vases, and is excellently indexed, not only by painter, vase shape, location, etc. but by subject. A good place to find images from both classical myths and from everyday life, with full scholarly apparatus.

The Center for the Tebtunis papyri,  The Bancroft Library
The Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The archive contains the largest collection of papyrus documents from a single site in the United States, consisting of over 21,000 fragments. The website provides some electronic access to the images of the Tebtunis Papyri as well as textual information.

Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents provides a focus for the study of ancient documents within Oxford housing its epigraphical archive, the Haverfield archive of Roman inscriptions from Britain, and a substantial photographic collection. The strengths of the epigraphical archive lie in its broad coverage of early Greek inscriptions, Attic epigraphy and the Hellenistic world.

Checklist of Papyri and Ostraka : Berkeley locations - UCB only
Beta version (UCB content last revised March 2007) of Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, by John F. Oates, et al., annotated with UC Berkeley call numbers and shelving locations.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum : CVAOnline
A searchable collection of more than 100,000 digital images of decorated Greek pottery, drawn from the illustrations of the out-of-print fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. The print version of CVA is arranged by country, then by holding institution, and surveys comprehensively collections of Greek vases in museums around the world.

Current Epigraphy
Reports news and events in Greek and Latin epigraphy. Publishes workshop and conference announcements, notices of discoveries, publications and reviews, project reports, and descriptive links to digital epigraphic projects.

Duke Papyrus Archive
The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg
Includes the Epigraphic Text, Photographic and Epigraphic Bibliography databases.

Hispania Epigraphica
An online, updated complement to the print Hispania epigrafica (CN670 .H57 MAIN), recording newly found or re-edited inscriptions from the Iberian peninsula.

Links to Web-based Epigraphical Resources
The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy maintains the most complete list of Web-based resources for this field. It includes access to reference works like lists of inscriptional abbreviations and dictionaries of ancient place names and their modern equivalents, online corpora of both Greek and Latin inscriptions (totalling well over 150,000 individual inscriptions, some with photographic illustration) and other links of interest to students of epigraphy.

P. Oxy. Online
Features indexes and images from the Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum papyri

Prosopographia Ptolemaica
A database of all inhabitants of Egypt from 300 BCE to 300 CE known from Greek, Latin and Egyptian sources. Searches may be done by combinations of criteria: name, location, occupation, and others. This site also connects to the Leuven Database of Ancient Books, which covers all known ancient manuscripts of literary texts, and to the Fayum Project, a database of all villages in the Fayum district known from papyri and inscriptions.

Supplements to Guide de l'Epigraphiste, 2001-June 2004
Scroll down the page to "Les suppléments".

Trismegistos
An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800.

University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
The collection contains over 7,000 inventory numbers and more than 10,000 individual fragments. You may search approximately 2,500 records (with images) in open-text format via University of Michigan's APIS interface, or you may search records of Michigan papyri, along with that of all the other APIS partner institutions, via the APIS central interface at Columbia University.

What's New in Epigraphy
Recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc.

What's New in Papyrology
Recent publications of papyri & ostraca, 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc. from Papy-L and other sources as noted.

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