Digital Resources of the ASCSA (DRAFT)

Since its founding in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has amassed a huge collection of both published and unpublished information. This includes books, journals, photographs, excavation notebooks, personal papers, maps, and scientific data sets. One of the major initiatives of the School in recent years has been to digitize these resources into an ASCSA Digital Library, which is actually a collection of several databases either administered directly by the School or in conjunction with other institutions. This page provides a central point of access to these major digital resources. For additional information not included here, please consult the main pages for the Research Facilities of the School.

The School would like to thank the Packard Foundation and Packard Humanities Institute, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Office of Regional Development of the European Union, Greek Ministry of Culture, Third Information Society of the European Union, European Economic Area (EEA), and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, all of whom have supplied funding to help the ASCSA become a leader in digital resources in the humanities.

Archaeological data: excavation records, artifacts and antiquities, etc.

ASCSA.net.  This interdepartmental archaeological database currently provides access to the data from ASCSA excavations in the Athenian Agora and at Ancient Corinth.
Archaeological Photographic Collection, 1881–1940, documents the restoration and field activities of the American School from its establishment in 1881 until WW II.

Library Catalogue

AMBROSIA The AMerican BRitish Online Search in Athens (AMBROSIA) database is an on-line union catalogue representing the holdings of the adjacent libraries of the British School at Athens and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which includes the Blegen and Gennadius libraries.

Maps and Spatial Data

Athenian Agora Maps from ASCSA.net
Corinth Excavation Maps from ASCSA.net
Mapping Mediterranean Lands is a fully searchable web-based catalog of significant early and unique maps of the Mediterranean region.

Modern Greece Historical Documents

Ion Dragoumis’ Correspondence includes 11,409 digital images of letters. Ion St. Dragoumis served initially as a diplomat in Istanbul, Rome and St. Petersburg, before becoming member of the Greek Parliament.
Joannes Gennadius’ Scrapbooks are one of the most important collections of the Gennadius library, because they contain invaluable information for the history of modern Greece. Gennadius collected photos and clippings from newspapers and books, engravings, printed matter, invitations and many other materials.
Photographs from the Historical Archives of the Gennadius Library document public and private moments of the Greek history, from the late 19th to the early decades of the 20th century. The photos originated from the Dragoumis family, Athanasios Souliotis, Nikolaos Mavris, author Stratis Myrivilis, as well as others.
Online finding aids of the Archives. Administrative records related to the function and mission of the American School, excavation records from American archaeological projects in Greece, and personal papers of American archaeologists working in Greece.
Online finding aids of the Gennadius Library Many important archival collections relating to the history and culture of modern Greece and the rest of the Balkan peninsula.

Photographic collections

Archaeological Photographic Collection, 1881–1940. Described above in Archaeological Data.
Dorothy Burr Thompson Collection, 1923–1960 includes images from Thompson’s travels in Greece, Turkey and Italy. The collection is a mosaic of information about architecture, landscapes and customs that no longer exist.
Alison Frantz Collection contains images by the photographer and archaeologist Alison Frantz, mainly depicting Archaic and Classical sculpture, Greek archaeological sites and various finds.
Photographs from the Historical Archives of the Gennadius Library described above in Historical Documents.
Athenian Agora Excavations Photos from ASCSA.net
Corinth Excavations Photos from ASCSA.net