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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,...

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Antioch 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...

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Visualizing 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...

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The 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,...

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Roman 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...

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Inscriptions 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...

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Visualizing 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...

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The 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...

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Late 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...

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Epigraphic 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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