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Thursday, June 25, 2026

Open Access Journal: Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization

[First posted in AWOL 4 October 2009., updated 25 June 2026]

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization
ISSN: 0083-4300
Online-ISSN: 2449-867X 

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Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization were created in 1991 as an irregular series which in the first place served as a forum for the presentation of the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology and studies provided by its researchers. The series was originated by professor Joachim Śliwa, who was also its first Editor in Chief, and since 2010 this function has been fulfilled by professor Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka. Since vol. 10 (2007) SAAC has become a regular yearly periodical. Until present fifteen volumes have been published, among them two monographic studies (vols. 3 and 11, the latter being Pontika 2006 conference proceedings edited by E. Papuci-Władyka) and three volumes dedicated to distinguished researchers from our Institute on occasion of their jubilees (vols. 8 – professor Maria Ludwika Bernhard, 14 – professor Joachim Śliwa and 15 – professor Janusz A. Ostrowski). SAAC publishes papers in the fields of archaeology, art and civilization of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece and its colonies, Cyprus and Rome, as well as other, non-Mediterranean ancient civilizations, and also in history of archaeology, collecting of antiquities and reception of ancient culture in modern Europe. Special attention is being given to topics concerning predynastic and early-dynastic Egypt, the Greek and Roman periods in the Black Sea region, and archaeology of Cyprus, due to the excavations conducted by researchers from our Institute in these areas. Objects and artefacts from these excavations are being published in SAAC.

De Antiquorum Artibus Et Civilisatione Studia Varia
Vol. 29 (2025)

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Brief Reports

Research Papers

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Edited by
Jaroslav Bodzek

Published: 17-12-2024

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Brief Reports

Research Papers

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Vol. 26 (2022)

Edited by
Jarosław Bodzek

Articles

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    Location: Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 24, 30-001 Kraków, Poland

    Tuesday, October 28, 2025

    Open Access Monograph Series: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

     [First posted in AWOL 25 April 2010. Updated (new URLs) 28 October 2025]

    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
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    About

    Welcome to CVA Online, the open access digital element of the CVA project. It is hosted by the Classical Art Research Centre on behalf of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI).

    The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ('Corpus of Ancient Vases') is the oldest research project of the UAI. It consists of a series of high-quality catalogues of mostly ancient Greek painted pottery in collections around the world. The first fascicule appeared in 1922 and since then more than 400 have appeared, illustrating more than 100,000 vases in 24 countries.

    The three-year CVA Online project originated in 2000, when Oxford University's Beazley Archive (later the Classical Art Research Centre) was invited to undertake the digitization of out-of-print fascicules. Some further digitization occurred up to 2016 and we continue to add resources when opportunities arise. The digitized catalogues can be viewed and browsed through this site. Their images and selected content are also integrated within CARC's Beazley Archive Pottery Database.

    The Original Project

    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum is the oldest research project of the Union Académique Internationale. The first meeting to organise the project was held in Paris in 1919. Edmond Pottier (1855 -1934) initiated it and produced the first fascicule for the Louvre in 1922. Pottier's role in developing CVA is the subject of 'corpus of ancient vases' in Revue Archéologique 2004.

    Pottier had become a curator in the Louvre in 1884, two years before all of its ancient pottery was incorporated into the Department of Oriental Antiquities. When the Louvre purchased several thousand ancient vases from the Campana Collection it became the largest collection of ancient pottery in the world. Many types were represented, for example Proto-Elamitic pottery which Pottier had been the first to publish in 1912.


    Pottier's vision of the types of pottery in CVA was broad - all ancient pottery from Europe, the Mediterranean, the Near East and the Middle East. Pottier's vision of publishing every example of so many different types of ancient pottery was ambitious and not easily realized. In 1956 it was suggested that Greek and related wares only should be published; these now dominate CVA. By 2004 more than 300 fascicules had been published by more than 120 collections.

    CVA Online

    In 2000 the International Committee of CVA asked the Beazley Archive to prepare a feasibility study for the digitization of out of print fascicules, approximately 250 for the web. Later that year the Union Académique Internationale formally invited the Beazley Archive to undertake the project.

    In 2001 The Getty Grant Program awarded £75,000 for a three-year project to be carried out in Oxford.

    The CVA project, to digitize these fascicules began fully in 2002 and ended in September 2004. Residual grant funding and further generous support from the Bavarian Academy later allowed further additions up to 2016. Although we do not aim systematically to add digital versions of all fascicules, we take the opportunities to update and augment CVA Online when resources permit it.

    SUPPORTED BY

    • Union Académique
    • Getty Grant Program
    • British Academy
    • University of Oxford
    • Bavarian Academy
    • Austrian Academy
    • Institut de France; Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres
    • Swiss Academy
    • Unione Accademica Nazionale (Rome)
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