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Ubi Erat Lupa

2014-08-05T15:48:01Z

ClaireMillington: added description

http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/about.php

Ubi Erat Lupa (Lupa) is a non-commercial project intended for a broad audience. It has a picture database (www.ubi-erat-lupa.org of stone monuments) including sculptures, reliefs, inscriptions, architectural pieces etc. ranging from pre-history to around AD 500.

Printable images (300 dpi) are available without charge (subject to some restrictions explained on their website), and the project welcomes contributions from museums and collections.

As its inception was in Vienna, most project data relates to the mid- and south-eastern regions of europe.

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Ubi Erat Lupa

2014-08-05T15:39:40Z

ClaireMillington:

http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/about.php

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Ubi Erat Lupa

2014-08-05T15:38:09Z

ClaireMillington: Created page with "http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/about.php category:epigraphy category:archaeology"

http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/about.php

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Curse Tablets from Roman Britain

2014-08-05T15:29:55Z

ClaireMillington: /* Introduction */ added cat

An electronic publication of the texts and archaeological context of inscribed lead tablets from Roman Britain, carried out by the [http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/ Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents], Oxford.

* Online: http://curses.csad.ox.ac.uk/

=== Introduction ===

(from http://curses.csad.ox.ac.uk/beginners/intro-britain.shtml)

Of the provinces of the former Roman empire, Britain is among the most fertile in curse tablets. At least 250 of the known 500+ Latin tablets have been found in Britain and more continue to be recovered. The two most important groups are the 100+ recovered in the sacred spring at Bath and the 87 documented from the rural shrine of Uley, Gloucestershire (see Uley introduction). From such substantial groups of documents, written or at least deposited in the same place, we can recover much information about the traditions of writing curse tablets (see Creating the curse - writing the curse), the rituals that accompanied the inscribing of curses and the context in which people thought it appropriate to create their curses, potentially a stigmatised activity because of its magical associations (see People, goods and gods - the workings of magic).

The majority of tablets have come to light in southern Britain around the Severn estuary, but they have also been found in London and Kent, on the Hamble estuary in Hampshire to the south and in the east Midlands and East Anglia. They have been found in towns with cosmopolitan populations, for example London and Bath, and at remote shrines, for example Brean Down, perched on a peninsula projecting into the Bristol Channel (see Brean Down introduction). To judge from the dating evidence of their scripts (see Curses and cursive - scripts), tablets were written throughout the period of the Roman presence in Britain, but the predominance of 'Old Roman Cursive' among the dated tablets suggest a peak in the second and third centuries AD.

The distribution of curse tablets is very different from that of other written documents in Britain. Stone inscriptions are mostly found at places associated with the Roman army, especially garrisons of forts and fortresses on Britain's northern frontier. Most wooden writing tablets too have been found during excavations of military sites, especially Vindolanda and Carlisle, as well as from London. Curse tablets by contrast are a precious source of evidence for the words and wishes of the town and country people of Roman Britain, albeit expressed in a very particular form. To judge from the names of those who commissioned or wrote them and the items that they seek to recover, the authors of curses are of relatively modest status (see People, goods and gods - victims and wrongdoers).

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Citation of Archaeological Collections and Aggregators

2014-08-05T15:19:50Z

ClaireMillington: /* Portable Antiquities Scheme, UK */ added cat

This page collects URL schemes for directly linking to records in archaeological collections and aggregators. "collections and aggregators" is meant as a broad term to encompass online resources offering information not tied to a single site or institution.

==Archaeological Collections and Aggregators==

===American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Digital Collections===
* http://ascsa.net/id/agora/object/p%2034646
* http://ascsa.net/id/corinth/object/c%202000%2013

===Arachne===
http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/bauwerk/2100006

===British Institute at Ankara===
* Sites: http://www.biaatr.org/collections2/site.php?id=1266
* Assemblages: http://www.biaatr.org/collections2/assemblage.php?id=586

===Europeana===
http://europeana.eu/portal/record/00401/AEBFF976BD6601A16F6C785EC1DF355AE7C60127.html

===Fasti Online===
http://www.fastionline.org/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_82 . This should perhaps move to a "Publications" page if one comes into existence.

===Museum of London, Ceramics Collection===
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ceramics/pages/object.asp?obj_id=20266

===Nomisma.org===
http://nomisma.org/id/athens

===Open Context===
http://opencontext.org/subjects/73221A18-7A7C-44C4-36CD-0CECF8F7A725

===Perseus Project===
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=BCMA+1914.6.6&object=Coin

===Portable Antiquities Scheme, UK===
http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/412455

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LIMES database

2014-08-05T14:54:27Z

ClaireMillington: added link

http://www.deutsche-limeskommission.de/index.php?id=156&L=1

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