The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art
1977 was not only the year of Star Wars, it also heralded the Age of Spirituality! As a follow up to the recent post on Byzantium and Islam, a special exhibit from 2012 with a permanent web presence,...
View ArticleAntioch in Late Antiquity: Photo Archive of the Princeton Excavations
As museums digitize their collections, institutional stewards of excavation records are also slowly moving them online, as part of a much broader effort within archaeology to effectively manage and...
View ArticleVisualizing Statues in Late Antiquity
Image from http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/ This fascinating and innovative project seeks to give users the experience of how statues (and their inscribed bases) constituted a collective memory among...
View ArticleThe Virtual Magic Bowl Archive (VMBA) and Prosopography
The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive is a collaborative environment for the publication of magic bowls in the Moussaieff, Dehays, and Barakat collections. It is housed at the University of Southampton,...
View ArticleRoman Catacombs Online: From the International Catacomb Society to Google Earth
The International Catacomb Society is a non-profit organization “dedicated to the preservation and documentation of the Roman catacombs & those rare vestiges of history that illustrate the common...
View ArticleInscriptions of Israel/Palestine
The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (IIP) is a premier open-access epigraphic database directed by Professor Michael Satlow of Brown University, begun already in 1996. The goal of the project is to...
View ArticleVisualizing Late Antiquity: Everyday Life AD 300-650
The goal of this project and website is “to bring academic work on late antiquity to wider attention, to compete with ‘Roman’ and ‘Medieval’ images of the European past.” The directors are Dr Luke...
View ArticleThe Roman Cult of Mithras by Roger Pearse
This site, part of Roger Pearse’s Tertullian.org, serves as both an introduction to the history and iconography of Mithraism suitable for undergraduate instruction and an extensive collection of...
View ArticleLate Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions by Mark Handley
This site offers several substantial resources. First, a list of new publications (online and print) on epigraphic culture of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, last updated in January 2014, and...
View ArticleEpigraphic Database Bari (EDB)
This database of early Christian inscriptions from Rome and its “suburbs,” from the 3rd to the 8th century, is a founding member of EAGLE, the (eventually) comprehensive European Archive of Greek and...
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