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Abbreviations for Scholarly Society Journal TItles (1323 - 1799)

Provides contemporary abbreviations for journals produced by various Scholarly Societies up to the year 1800. Part of the Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum, an inventory of the oldest scholarly societies, undertaken by the Scholarly Societies Project at the University of Waterloo. The abbreviations list, which is linked to historical outlines for each society, derives from the Reuss Repertorium, an index to scholarly literature in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Abbreviations for titles of Classical/Medieval Studies journals

Covers about 200 titles of classical journals held at Indiana University's libraries, using the abbreviations adopted by L'Année Philologique. This selection of common APh abbreviations will be useful for those without subscriber access to the on-line list at APh's own website.

owner: Nancy Boerner (nboerner@indianu.edu)

languages: English

abbreviations list for IG squeeze catalog

Expands abbreviations used in the IG online squeeze catalog, dividing them into two groups: periodicals and corpora/collections.

abbreviations used in SEG XXXVI-XLV

"The list is taken from Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Consolidated Index for Volumes XXXVI-XLV (1986-1995), edited by J.H.M. Strubbe with the assistance of M.J. Bakker (Amsterdam 1999); permission to publish it on the Internet was courteously granted by the editor, J.C. Gieben. "

Abbreviations used in the Barrington Atlas

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file containing full abbreviations list from R. Talbert (ed.), Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, 2000). Works with Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or more recent.

owner: Ancient World Mapping Center (awmc@unc.edu)

Abbreviations: American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)

Standard abbreviations employed by the journal; part of its style guide for authors.

languages: English

Abkürzungen/Abbreviations (Frankfurt)

Bibliographic abbreviations used for epigraphic works from which texts have been entered into Manfred Clauss' Frankfurt Sammlung.

Abkürzungen: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae

Many common abbreviations for collections, serials and journals, but also includes others (especially from the Balkans) that are not treated in the SEG and APh lists).

checklist of editions of greek, latin, demotic and coptic papyri, ostraca and tablets

"The primary purpose of the Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets is to provide for scholars and librarians a ready bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. Texts published in periodicals as journal articles are normally excluded; Greek texts are regularly republished in successive volumes of Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (SB), the volumes of which are included." Standard abbreviations (e.g., P.Dura) are included for each edition or series. Follow the links at the left of the screen to access the various listings. Each entry begins with the relevant abbreviation.

owner: John F. Oates, et al. (joates@duke.edu)

languages: English

Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations ...

J.S. Wellington. Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 1983. ISBN: 0-313-23523-6. This work is not available on-line, but we list it because it is so useful in this regard, and because it is still available, at least through some online book dealers.

Guide to Selected Periodicals for Classics and Related Fields

Prepared by the University of Chicago Library.

History Journals Guide: Periodicals Directory: Abbreviations of Periodicals

Part of the History Journals Guide, which 'aims to provide up-to-date information about history journals worldwide. . . . At the moment, about 3700 serials are listed without chronological, geographical or topical limitations'. Although not limited to classical fields, this will be useful for tracing unfamiliar journals in the wider field of history. Once at the site, select 'Periodicals Directory' and then (under 'Others') select 'Abbreviations'.

owner: Stefan Blaschke (hjg@history-journals.de)

languages: English

Journals Covered in TOCS-IN

This listing of all journals and issues covered in TOCS-IN includes abbreviations for each.

owner: Philippa Matheson (amphoras@chass.utoronto.ca)

languages: English

List of Abbreviations (TAPA)

A convenient list of about 80 common abbreviations (journals and key reference works), as used in Transactions of the American Philological Association. Taken from TAPA 130 (2000), vii-viii. (Note the restrictions on reproducing the list, as stated in the header.)

owner: American Philological Association ()

languages: English

Lista de abreviaturas empleadas

A large list of bibliographic abbreviations assembled and employed by the Diccionario Griego-Español project. A large number of Greek epigraphic editions and collections are included in this list because these are the same abbreviations used in the CLAROS Concordance of Editions, assembled by the DGE team.

languages: Spanish

Periodical abbreviations used in ANS numismatic literature

A large collection of bibliographic abbreviations employed by the American Numismatic Society in its publications. Includes many abbreviations for numismatic publications that do not appear in other lists.

Scholarly abbreviations for ancient authors and works

An alphabetical listing of abbreviations commonly used for ancient authors and works. In many cases, an English equivalent of a work's title is included. The contents of the abbreviations database can also be searched at http://iam.classics.unc.edu/main/ansource.asp#wildabbrev.

owner: Ancient World Mapping Center (awmc@unc.edu)

languages: English, Latin, Greek

Standard abbreviations for Assyriology

Provided by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Includes many abbreviations for general use, such as "adj." = "adjective." Note that some abbreviations are peculiar to this specialist field and might not be appropriate for general use, such as "R" = "Rawlinson et al., Cuneiform Inscriptions."

Table des Périodiques (APh)

Alphabetical list of abbreviations for all periodicals cited in l'Année Philologique (over 1,000). NB: as of 28 Sept 2002 this page appears to have been removed from the server or rendered inaccessible to non-subscribers. If you are unable to reach the site, you may care to try a similar list: Abbreviations for titles of Classical/Medieval Studies journals at Indiana University.

languages: French

Abbreviations in Latin inscriptions

A series of lists containing abbreviations found in Latin inscriptions. The series represents a new compilation of such abbreviations, assembled from digital texts of all Latin inscriptions published in L'Année Épigraphique between 1888 and 1993. There are two sets of lists, one containing common abbreviations (those occuring more than 10 times in the inscriptions sampled), and another containing all the abbreviations that occur in the inscriptions sampled.

owner: Tom Elliott (tom_elliott@unc.edu)

languages: English, Latin

Sigles et abréviations épigraphiques

Alphabetical arrangement of epigraphic abbreviations extracted from A. Cappelli, Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane, Milan: 1929. Part of the site: Locutio: Expressions et citations latines (http://www.locutio.com/).

Bibliotheca Classica Selecta

URL change reflected as of 21 March 2004. An on-line version of: Poucet J., Hannick J.-M., Aux sources de l'antiquité gréco-romaine. Guide bibliographique, 5e éd. Revue et augmenté, Namur (Belgique), Éditions Artel, 1997, 313 p. [ISBN 2-87374-019-1]. Additional information is regularly added to this version, which also has clickable references to internet resources. Note especially the Épigraphie section, which includes substantial entries on general works and "Épigraphie et électronique", as well as Creto-Mycenaean, Greek, Etrusco-Italic, Latin and Christian epigraphy.

owner: Jacques Poucet (poucet@fusl.ac.be)

languages: French

Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR's publication, from 1990 to the present. Subscription to the ongoing journal is free and may be obtained by filling in the appropriate form.

languages: Multiple (interface in English)

CLAROS. Concordancia de Inscripciones Griegas

CLAROS is a collection of the concordances included at the end of many epigraphical collections that were published since the end of the nineteenth century, as well as a number of concordances prepared by the authors of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum or by the editors of the Diccionario Griego-Español for volumes that had an incomplete concordance or had no concordance at all. In all, CLAROS contains near 140.000 records coming from more than 350 epigraphical collections. The purpose of CLAROS is to make it easier to locate new editions and translations of Greek Inscriptions.

owner: Juan Rodríguez Somolinos (somolinos@filol.csic.es)

languages: Interface in Spanish

Delphi Database

A guide to the chaos of publications of the inscriptions from Delphi, the Delphi database is an index-concordance in the form of a table, in which each line analyzes one bibliographic item. Currently the database contains more than 7,400 lines (500k in tab-delimited plain text; over 1 Mb formatted). The table is searchable via a browser form; instructions and examples for developing search terms are provided on a separate, linked page. From the entry page, select "Delphi.db_OL".

owner: Nancy Kelly (njk3@cornell.edu)

languages: English interface

Epigraphy, Paleography And Papyrology: a Guide to Library Resources

A guide to related library resources in the collection of the University of Adelaide in Australia. For students elsewhere, provides some basic bibliography on topics like abbreviations.

owner: Chris Smith (christopher.smith@adelaide.edu.au)

languages: English

Gnomon Online: The Eichstätt Information System for Classical Studies

Gnomon online is a selection from the Gnomon Bibliographic Databank. The CD for 2001 is in bookstores now (ISBN 3-406-44289-7). About 15% of the database content has been made available over the Internet; the online version includes the complete set of entries from 1998 onwards. The database is updated at least once a week.

owner: Jürgen Malitz (100270.3107@compuserve.com)

languages: German and English interface

Guide de l'épigraphiste

Although not available in its entirety online, this systematic printed guide to the bibliography of modern epigraphic scholarship is an essential companion to the student of epigraphy and so merits mention here. Full bibliographic details: F. Bérard et al. Guide de l'épigraphiste: Bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales. 3d ed. Guides et inventaires bibliographiques de la Bibliothèque de l'École normale supérieure, 6. 2000. ISBN 2728802548. Annual supplements, providing updates for bibliography that has appeared in the intervening year, are available for free download in PDF form via the website.

languages: French

Infimae Aetatis: ICE/ICK Information

Includes a description of those late antique and medieval inscriptions, including source bibliography, that were included on the PHI CDROM #6.

owner: John Mansfield (jmm12@cornell.edu)

languages: English

L'Année philologique on the Internet

A database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique under the direction of Éric Rebillard in collaboration with the American Philological Association and the Database of Classical Bibliography, Dee L. Clayman, General Editor, with the support of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and of the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA). As of June 2003, the site includes all volumes of Aph from 40 (1969) to 72 (2001). An institutional or personal subscription is required, and can be purchased online.

languages: English and French

Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell' Antichità Classica

One of the the web's most comprehensive major metasites (links) to ancient studies resources. Rassegna includes a section entitled Fonti epigrafiche, which provides links to various epigraphical resources.

owner: Alessandro Cristofori (csalvaterra@lettere.unibo.it)

languages: Italian

TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists

From the site: "TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 6%). The project began to archive current tables of contents in 1992, and now contains ca 160 journals, and over 23,000 articles, in a database at Toronto. In addition, the Louvain mirror site archives much additional material for some of the journals before 1992. Searches of all data can be made at both sites." A significant number of journals of interest to epigraphers are indexed. A full list of journals covered is available on the site.

owner: Philippa MW Matheson and Jacques Poucet (pmw.matheson@utoronto.ca)

languages: English (French mirror site)

Vespasianic Fossa Regia Inscriptions: A Citation Handlist

Supplement to the various published lists of the 9 published inscriptions testifying to re-demarcation of a small portion of the Fossa Regia during the reign of the emperor Vespasian.

owner: Tom Elliott (tom_elliott@unc.edu)

languages: English

Ares Publishers - Epigraphy and Papyrology

Current titles.

DeGruyter - Epigraphy and Papyrology

Titles currently available.

Ancient World Mapping Center

A research center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, devoted to promoting cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies.

owner: AWMC (awmc@unc.edu)

languages: English

Cathedral Libraries Catalogue: Names of Printing Towns

This list gives English or other vernacular forms for the Latin names of printing towns as found in early printed books. There are also some references for early spellings of vernacular forms of names. This is a working document of the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue and is not intended to replace the lists in Orbis Latinus, Brunet, etc.

owner: David Shaw (D.J.Shaw@ukc.ac.uk)

languages: English

Latin place names found in the imprints of books printed before 1801

This database was compiled from the imprint information in cataloging records of several Anglo-American research libraries. Place name vernacular equivalents in AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) form are provided for each name.

owner: Robert Maxwell (robert_maxwell@byu.edu)

Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD)

"This site supports online research in the field of dromography and provides a public-access electronic archive of geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE."

owner: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@ciolek.com)

languages: English

Orbis Latinus (second edition)

Digital version of the second edition of J.G.Th. Graesse, Orbis Latinus (Berlin, 1909), provided on the web through the Electronic Text Service of Columbia University. A listing of medieval and Renaissance (not necessarily classical) Latin placenames originally prepared in the late 19th century. The most recent, revised edition of this work is not available digitally, but in print: J.G.Th. Graesse, Orbis Latinus; Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, Grossausgabe, bearb. und hrsg. von Helmut Plechl unter Mitarbeit von Sophie-Charlotte Plechl (Braunschweig, 1972).

owner: Karen Green (klg19@columbia.edu)

Perseus Atlas

Interactive, online mapping from the Perseus Project.

Perseus Site Search

Provides convenient access to site-related information in the Perseus Digital Library, including site plans, photographs, physical descriptions and bibliography.

Places and Cultural Groups in Ancient History

An extensive set of links to on-line maps and geographic information. Part of the Classical/Ancient History section at about.com.

owner: N.S. Gill (ancienthistory.guide@about.com)

languages: English

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

Searchable, digital version of R. Stillwell et al. (eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton, 1976). The text was digitized and is presented online by the Perseus Digital Library.

languages: English

Topographia Urbis Romae: Ancient Sources

A collection of on-line texts relating to the topography of ancient Rome, part of Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius website. In addition to his selections from Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Thayer has included Henri Jordan's critical texts of the fourth century Regionaries catalog and Ordo Benedicti (from Jordan's Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum), Frontinus' De Aquis (in Latin, English and French), the revised 1905 Italian version of Christian Hülsen's Il Foro Romano - Storia e Monumenti (with images, maps and plans), Italian and English versions of Rodolfo Lanciani's Roma Pagana e Cristiana (Pagan and Christian Rome), and Filippo Titi's Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte al pubblico in Roma (1683).

Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Platner)

Three different versions of Samuel Ball Platner's A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (London: 1929) are available on the web. The University of Chicago Library's Electronic Open Stacks collection of image-based texts (i.e., digital raster scans) includes a full-length version of TDAR in browseable JPEG form. A complete, searchable full-text version of TDAR with automatically-generated links to other resources is available from the Perseus Project. A partial, hand-annotated and linked full-text version is available from Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius website.

languages: English

Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary (Perseus Project)

Search Latin dictionary entries in Lewis and Short. English definitions may also be searched. Inflected forms can be entered in the Latin Morphological Analyzer, which will provide a complete range of form identifications as well as appropriate links to the corresponding Lewis and Short lemmas and entries.

Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek (Perseus Project)

Search Greek dictionary entries in the LSJ. English definitions may also be searched. Inflected forms can be entered in the Greek Morphological Analyzer, which will provide a complete range of form identifications as well as appropriate links to the corresponding LSJ lemmas and entries.

inscriptiones-l

Inscriptiones-L (a.k.a.the Epigraphy list) is a scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy. Although the official language of the list is English, posts in any of the languages of which scholars in this field should be aware (e.g. French, German, Italian, Spanish) are also welcome. Of course, a knowledge of Greek and Latin is assumed. The list home page provides access to subscription control, archives and binary files related to the group's activities. Subscription can be made through the list homepage, or by sending a blank email to Inscriptiones-l-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

languages: Multiple

Introduction to Greek and Latin epigraphy: an absolute beginners' guide

Notes intended to support introductory classes, with useful bibliography, web links, and some reference lists and tables organized topically.

owner: Onno van Nijf (o.m.van.nijf@let.rug.nl)

languages: English

De Imperatoribus Romanis: an encylopedia of Roman emperors

DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links.

owner: Richard Weigel (Richard.Weigel@wku.edu)

languages: English

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN)

"A British Academy Major Research Project, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) was established to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names. Our material is drawn from all available sources, from the earliest Greek written records to approximately the sixth century A.D." Site includes recent news, an overview of the history and purpose of the LGPN, overviews of published and forthcoming volumes, essays on the role of information technology in the project, browseable and searchable published and unpublished data, and contact information.

languages: English

North-African names from Latin sources

A searchable, electronic version of K. Jongeling, North-African Names from Latin Sources, CNWS Publications 21, Leiden, 1994, ISBN: 9073782252 plus some additional material in the form of a downloable program for the DOS operating system.

owner: K. Jongeling (k.jongeling@let.leidenuniv.nl)

languages: English

Prosopographia Imperii Romani

The Berlin-Brandenberg Academy's "Who's who" of the Roman Empire. Site includes project info, and a searchable interface to the project's database, providing PIR2 citations (or other literature if relevant PIR2 vol. hasn't appeared) for most Roman senators, equites (knights) and other important persons between 30 BC/BCE and AD/CE 284. In July 2001, the PIR team began publishing updates to bibliography and content of lemmas previously published. These now cover lemmas beginning with the letter "A" and are included in relevant search result sets. The addenda may also be searched exclusively, through a separate search interface.

owner: Klaus Wachtel (wachtel@bbaw.de)

languages: German interface

Prosopographia Ptolemaica

The Prosopographia Ptolemaica lists all inhabitants of Egypt between 300 and 30 B.C., from Greek, Egyptian and Latin sources, both authors and documents. Since the mid-1980s, the project has been converting a 100,000-card file system to a database, with the goal of eventual publication on the internet. The progress and working methods of the project are described.

languages: English

Prosopographie der stadtrömischen Priesterschaften

A demonstration version of a soon-to-appear prosopographical reference for the study of the social history of Roman religion. From the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Potsdam.

languages: German