Research Guides: ARCH 242: Colonies and Colonization (BMC): Images

Finding Images

JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.

Arachne (German Archaeological Institute images)
Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and Classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database (BAPD)
The BAPD is the world's largest database of ancient Greek painted pottery (‘Greek vases’). It contains records of more than 130,000 ancient pots and 250,000 images. Nearly all of the pots included were made during the 6th to 4th centuries BC, and about three quarters of them were made in Athens.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Search the online collection of artifacts and art in the collection at the MET. Entries may include images and descriptions of the objects.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology Collection
Search online for artifacts from anicent cultures in the collection at the Penn Museum. Many entries have images and descriptions of objects.
LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae)
This enormous image dictionary (in Carpenter Reference) allows you to search for images of mythological characters and events in all media (sculpture, coins, vases, etc.). An excellent source for browsing images of vases, since images of both complete vases and fragments are included.