The page below, intended for students but more broadly accessible, includes links and a description of online resources, databases, and tools for the study of the ancient world.
numismatic databases
Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) Online: online database for the Roman Provincial Coinage project, which is developing a typology of coins from the Roman provinces
American Numismatic Society Collections Database (MANTIS): online collection of the American Numismatic Society
Nomisma: Stable Numismatic Concepts
OCRE: Online Coins of the Roman Empire
CHRR: Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic
CRRO: Coinage of the Roman Republic Online
PELLA: Coinage of the Macedonian Kings of the Argead Dynasty
Corpus Nummorum Thracorum: online database/collection of coinage from Thrace the 6th c. BCE-4th c. CE
Severan Database Project: online database of Severan-period coinage, eventually as part of the Roman Provincial Coinage series; includes databases on Severan provincial coinage, on Severan period coin hoards, and a database collecting inscriptions of Julia Domna
thematic databases/maps
Roman Sacred Buildings: project mapping Roman temples throughout the empire; can search by deity, date, orientation + more
Digital Augustan Rome: online mapping project exploring the cityscape of Rome under Augustus
Myths on Maps: explore the spatial and geographic dimensions of myths across the map of the Mediterranean; includes clickable texts, lists of characters and groups
Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity: prosopological research project tracing clerical movements and exile across the Mediterranean in late antiquity (coming soon)
GeoDia: project presenting images of material culture from the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, searchable and browsable by date, culture, region
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: searchable database project of Greek personal names from 8th c. BCE to late antiquity.
Tesserae: search for intertexts within and between Greek and Latin texts
epigraphy and papyrology databases
Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions: includes transcribed inscriptions from many of the standard collections
Epigraphy Database Heidelberg: inscriptions from across the Roman empire
Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine: database of inscriptions from the 6th c. BCE-640 CE
OCIANA: Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia
Inscriptions Christianae Graecae: online database of early Christian inscriptions from the Greek East
POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online: online database for the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Papyri.info: aggregate database for ancient papyri
Curse Tablets of Roman Britain: searchable database, with pages on historical context of findspots, an introduction to curse tablets
Epigraphic database list from the Catacomb Society
maps/mapping tools
Recogito: extremely versatile and useful mapping and annotating tool from pelagios (also easy to use)
pleiades: gazetteer of ancient places in the Mediterranean
leaflet: open-source javascript library for making online maps
neatline: a series of plugins for Omeka that allows users to create interactive deep maps which can be linked to objects and entries in an Omeka database
palladio: visualize data as networks or on a map
digitalmappa: create free digitally annotated maps, images, and texts
storymaps: (from ArcGIS) create interactive maps, texts, exhibits, and interactive tours
storymapJS: (from KnightLab) create maps that tell stories
TimelineJS: for making interactive timelines
google tour builder: create a guided tour on google base maps, with limited annotations and the ability to upload youtube videos as interactive features
storylineJS: (from Knightlab) annotate data visualizations
3D models/modeling
cultural heritage + history @ sketchfab: 3D models of art, architecture, landscapes; you can download and annotate models easily, too
text analysis/annotation
Hypothesis: an annotation tool that works with websites, pdfs, your own documents, group annotations; can also download and install as a plugin for your website
Voyant: reading and analysis tool (copy/paste or upload document; produces word clouds, document trends, links between words + more)
Prism: collaborative annotation
databases/data visualizations/misc
Omeka: online collection, database, exhibit builder; lots of plugins available to extend functionality (see neatline below)
Scalar: an online publishing tool where you can create interactive projects, including annotated images, timelines, maps, and websites
WTFcsv: an easy-to-use tool that pulls out major trends from a spreadsheet and displays them through graphs and word clouds
Up-Goer-Five Text Editor: an online text editor that allows you to use only the 1000 most used words
Cytoscape: visualize network data and more
Gephi: data visualization tool
ConnectTheDots: a tool that mines your spreadsheet data to create a network
RawGraphs: a data visualization tool for graphs with easy input
SameDiff: (another data.io tool) discover similarities and differences between multiple text files