Monday, December 23, 2013

The Arshama Project

http://arshama.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/publications/

The Arshama Letters from the Bodleian Library (eds. C. J. Tuplin, J. Ma).
This multi-parted, multi-authored work is a preliminary presentation of some of the findings and activities of the AHRC-funded Research Network which explored the documents relating to the Persian satrap of Egypt, Arshama. This work should be considered as a forerunner of, or taster for, the forthcoming volume Arshama and Egypt: The World of an Achaemenid Prince (OUP). All parts can be freely downloaded for research and instruction purposes, and full citation of the editors and authors should be given.

Vol. 1 Introduction (J. Ma, C. J. Tuplin, L. Allen)
Vol. 2  Texts and English translation with glossary (D. G. K. Taylor)
(This volume can also be downloaded as another version with paired Aramaic texts and English translations followed by the glossary, or indeed as separate parts: textstranslationglossary).
Vol. 3 Commentary (C. J. Tuplin)
Vol. 4 Bibliography and abbreviations

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/onlinebiblio.php

This site provides many freely accessible PDFs of books and articles on Egyptology as well as links to websites where access may not be free.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Selected Artifacts from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for National Treasures

http://www.antiquities.org.il/t/Default_en.aspx

From the home page:

The National Treasures Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority is responsible for the housing, documentation and control of antiquities in Israel. The National Treasures' collections comprise hundreds of thousands of artifacts that range from prehistoric periods to the end of the Ottoman period. Most of the artifacts are housed and catalogued in the repositories of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for National Treasures, and approximately 50,000 artifacts are on loan at archaeological exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

This on-line site offers a selection of published artifacts from the collections of the National Treasures and is available for researchers, curators, students and the general public in Israel and abroad. This site is updated continuously, and new artifacts are added on a regular basis.

The artifacts on the site are arranged both chronologically (according to archaeological periods) and typologically (according to the type of artifact), allowing either a gradual guided entry through the main title pages to the artifact's information card, or directly to the artifact's information card using an advanced search box.

The artifact's information card presents detailed archaeological data about the selected artifact, including provenance, type, dimensions, material, site where discovered, dating and bibliography. In addition, hi-resolution images of on-line artifacts may be purchased on-line from the photographic archives of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens (MSU)

http://adw-goe.de/en/research/research-projects-within-the-academies-programme/septuaginta/publikationen/msu/

Go here for several open access PDF downloadable monographs on the Septuagint.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Propylaeum-DOK Digital Repository Classical Studies

http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/view/

This site scholars the opportunity to publish their work on Classics open access, and thus others to access their work freely. At present there are some 2000 free publications

U.S. Epigraphy Project

http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/projects/usep/about/

From the "about" page:

The goal of the U.S. Epigraphy Project (USEP) is to collect and share information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the United States of America.
The Project currently provides access to a database of some 750 Greek and 1,700 Latin inscriptions in the USA through browsing by collection and publication and by searching various categories of metadata (language, date, origin, type, material) and bibliographic information. A growing digital corpus of the collection registers some 400 EpiDoc editions of Latin texts and provides some 1,000 images of the inscriptions registered by the Project, each of which is identified by a unique USEP number based upon its location.
Further information about any of the materials registered by the Project, which include texts in languages other than Greek and Latin (mainly Etruscan) from within the territory of the Roman empire and nearly 300 paper squeezes of Greek inscriptions from (mostly) Attica and the Greek cities of Asia Minor, may be sought directly from the Project staff at:
U.S. Epigraphy Project | Box 1856 | Brown University | Providence, RI 02906
phone: 401-863-3815 or 1267 | fax: 401-863-7484 | email: john_bodel@brown.edu

Open Richly Anotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC)

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/

From the homepage:
Oracc is a collaborative effort to develop a complete corpus of cuneiform whose rich annotation and open licensing support the next generation of scholarly research. Created by Steve Tinney, Oracc is steered by Eleanor Robson, Tinney, and Niek Veldhuis.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Bible Research: Internet Resources for Students of Scripture

http://www.bible-researcher.com/

This site, run by Michael D. Marlowe, is chocked full of resources--many of which are open access--for the Old and New Testaments. Resources include books as well as articles from other scholars and links to online texts.