Digitale Topographie der Stadt Rom Project

 [First posted in AWOL 8 July 2015, updated 22 October 2021 (new URLs)]

 

Digitale Topographie der Stadt Rom 

Chrystina Häuber & Franz Xaver Schütz

Die Klassische Archäologin Dr. Chrystina Häuber (jetzt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität [LMU] München, Department für Geographie) und der Geograph und Programmierer Dr. Franz Xaver Schütz (Hochschule München, Fakultät für Geoinformation und FORTVNA Research Center for Archaeological Information Systems Regensburg) haben die Forschungsprojekte "FORTVNA" (1994-2001) und "The Eastern Part of the Mons Oppius in Rome" (2001-2003) gemeinsam durchgeführt. Im Forschungsprojekt "FORTVNA" haben sie das gleichnamige objektorientierte Informationssystem zur Erforschung der Topographie des antiken Rom entwickelt, während das Forschungsprojekt "The Eastern Part of the Mons Oppius in Rome" nach dem Untersuchungsgebiet auf dem Esquilin in Rom benannt war, an dem sie das Informationssystem "FORTVNA" erprobt haben. Um die erzielten Resultate in Karten umzusetzen, begannen sie 2003 mit dem laufenden Forschungsprojekt "AIS ROMA"...

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Proxeny Networks of the Ancient World (a database of proxeny networks of the Greek city-states)

Proxeny Networks of the Ancient World  (a database of proxeny networks of the Greek city-states)

About

PNAW is a database of evidence for a particular kind of social networking between Greek city-states in the Ancient Greek world, known as proxeny (Greek: proxenia). It enables this material to be used to visualise the highly-fragmented political geography of the ancient world during the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and to get a sense of how densely and intensely interconnected were the states which made it up.

Context

Before its unification under a Roman emperor, the ancient Mediterranean world constituted the most fragmented state system in recorded history. More than a thousand distinct Greek city-states (poleis), and many other kinds of actor, such as dynasts, federations, and kings, made up a vibrant and dynamic ecosystem of self-governing states. The interactions of these states were mediated through a highly developed system of institutions. Proxeny is the best attested of these institutions, and was probably the most widely used. It enabled cities to maintain substantial and often widespread networks that connected them with other cities.

Proxeny

Proxeny was an institution of interstate relations in the ancient Greek world. A city-state granted proxeny to the citizen of another community, the status of being their proxenos within that individual's home city. The role of the proxenos was to facilitate interaction between the two political communities, most often by performing services of different kinds for visiting citizens of the first state (termed here the 'granting city'). These services could take various forms - including hospitality, introductions to magistrates, prominent men, or merchants, and help negotiating local legal institutions in the case of contractual disputes. Collectively these services helped to enable citizens of the granting community in question to overcome the political fragmentation of this world and function, whether as official representatives of their own city, or as merchants, tradesmen, or even as tourists, in other communities where they did not have the privileged status of citizen. Proxeny networks, therefore, reflect and allow us to trace patterns of political, economic, and social interactions between city states, and to trace the horizons of different political communities.

PNAW

PNAW presents an overview of our evidence for these relationships of proxeny in the ancient world, including those recorded in the literary sources as well as the more than two thousand texts inscribed on stone. It accompanies the recent study of this institution published by Oxford University Press, Proxeny and Polis and its purpose is to make this material available in an accessible format which can be corrected and updated as new evidence is published. It makes use of GIS mapping to enable the evidence of links between different communities which this data presents to be explored in an intuitive way. In order to make the search function useable, results are presented in a condensed view with further information available in the form of mouseover dialogue boxes. To illustrate the potential of the search and mapping functions of this database, here are some example searches:

• Athenian proxenoi network of the fifth century BC
• Proxenoi at Athens in the fourth century BC
• The Karthaian catalogue of proxenoi, 360s BC
• Grants of citizenship (politeia) alongside proxenia

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Archaeological Survey of Israel Online

 [First posted in AWOL 4 April 2016, updated 128 July 2020]

Archaeological Survey of Israel - English - Hebrew

The sites documented in the Archaeological Survey of Israel are published on the website where they are displayed in survey squares of 100 sq km (10 × 10 km). The list of maps is presented below in alphabetic order, according to their names and numbers as recorded in Yalquṭ Ha-Pirsumim. The survey maps can be seen on the right side of the screen against the background of an aerial photograph. The sites (marked with yellow dots) can be accessed by zooming in on the screen and a description of them will appear by clicking on the dots. The introduction to each map and search options are also displayed.

• Map survey
• Dev survey
• Golan survey- introduction
• Arava survey- introduction
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Benthos: Digital Atlas of Ancient Waters

 [First posted in AWOL 18 February 3013, updated 3 January 2020]

Benthos: Digital Atlas of Ancient Waters

Benthos is a new initiative of the Ancient World Mapping Center that aims to catalog and map the waters of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including both physical and cultural geography. The project will provide interactive maps of Mediterranean shipping networks, bathymetric data, and views of ancient coastlines. Currently the project is in a preliminary state, with a functional beta version of the application based off of Antiquity À-la-carte.

Click here or on the image above in order to launch the map application. This application works best with Firefox, Chrome, or Safari and currently does not work correctly with Internet Explorer.

All site content and maps are released here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license.

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Mycenaean Atlas Project

[First posted in AWOL 16 March 2018, updated 29 December 2019]

Mycenaean Atlas Project

 

The purpose of this web site is to provide accurate latitude and longitude coordinates for all the Early, Middle, and Late Helladic (Mycenaean) find sites both in Greece and in places which the Mycenaean culture touched. This site also provides some bibliographic information as well as times of occupation and the nature of the finds at the various sites. The main purpose is, however, to provide locational information.

Locational Data: Accuracy

Every effort has been made to confirm the exact location of each site. For a complete description of this parameter and of the concepts of Precision and Accuracy as they apply to this web site see this.

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Vici.org: Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity

[First posted in AWOL 29 September 2012, updated 30 September 2019]

Vici.org: Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity

Vici.org is the archaeological atlas of classical antiquity. It is a community driven archaeological map, inspired by and modelled after Wikipedia.

The first version of Vici.org went online in May 2012. It was preceded by a sister website Omnesviae.org, a roman routeplanner based on the Peutinger map. Since its start, Vici.org has grown a lot. At the time to this writing, over 140 contributors have added nearly 20,000 locations, approximately 1,000 line tracings and over 3,000 images.

Open Data

Similar to Wikipedia, all written content is available for reuse using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-license. Metadata is available using the CC0 / Public Domain dedication. Images or line tracings may be available under other licenses. Vici.org invites everyone to participate and share his of her knowledge of classical antiquity. Vici.org does provide various services to reuse this shared knowledge, through various dataservices or by using the Vici widget.

• Add a new place
• Recently added
• Recently changed
• Linking to the map
• Vici widget
• Mobile version
• About Vici.org

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• Deutsch
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• Nederlands

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Atlas archéologique de l’Égypte

Atlas archéologique de l’Égypte 

L’Atlas archéologique de l’Égypte, de Georges Daressy, fait probablement partie des trésors du cabinet d’égyptologie du Collège de France. Arrivé en Égypte en 1886, conservateur au musée de Boulaq, secrétaire général et directeur par intérim du service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, Georges Daressy a, en effet, au fil des ans, patiemment noté sur son Atlas, toutes les découvertes archéologiques dont il avait connaissance. Ayant participé à de multiples campagnes de fouilles et ayant accompli de nombreuses découvertes (dont celles du palais d’Amenhotep III et de la seconde cachette royale de Deir el-Bahari), travailleur infatiguable, il avait une profonde connaissance du terrain. Son Atlas est, en outre, une véritable œuvre d’art à laquelle rendent justices les « fac-similés » de cette publication que nous avons le plaisir d’offrir au public. Les cartes d’état-major, les index (en français-anglais et en arabe) et la bibliographie complètent l’appareil critique. 

Collection « Études d’égyptologie », dirigée par Nicolas Grimal, professeur au Collège de France. 

Trois fichiers numériques interactifs complémentaires et gratuits : Atlas archéologique, cartes d’état-major, bibliographie.La cour à portique de Thoumosis IV, volume de textesLa cour à portique de Thoumosis IV, volume de planchesLa cour à portique de Thoumosis IV, volume de dépliants

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Digital Maps of the Ancient World: Mapping the Ancient World little by little…

Digital Maps of the Ancient World: Mapping the Ancient World little by little…

The aim of this platform is to map out the Ancient World in as many aspects as possible. This website and subsequent content came about from my wife, parents and a few of my pupils asking to have access to the maps, which had been created to use as part of my Classics syllabus.

The maps are an ongoing process and so are not complete but I do hope that you will find them useful; for the classroom, personal interest or just to double check a specific place or site.

I would very much welcome feedback on any of the content featured in these maps and especially if anyone would like to contribute with photographs or definitions.

I hope you enjoy!

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Maps, GIS Data, and Archaeological Data for Corinth and Greece

Maps, GIS Data, and Archaeological Data for Corinth and Greece

We present this collection of modern and historical maps, GIS data, and resource links for archaeologists, novice cartographers, and experienced GIS users. Original material, redistributed copies, and modified versions are offered under Creative Commons licensing. Feel free to copy, share, remix, transform, and build upon the maps and data as long as the source and changes are documented and they remain free. Download links may be found for both high resolution TIF images and Shapefiles covering the Corinthia and beyond. Those who wish to finish the readymade maps with an image editor like Photoshop may click the links beneath each thumbnail map. Others with GIS skills to construct their own dynamic maps should see the GIS Data section. Sources for the data as well as other good open data resources are further down the page.

Readymade High-res Basemaps with Layers (click links to download)

	Greece Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 500m contours. Layers: administrative (national boundary, periferiesand Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient major settlements, railways, rivers, and roads.
	Peloponnese, Attica, and Southwestern Aegean(1:1,000,000) Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 200m contours. Layers: administrative (periferies and Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient places, railways, rivers, and roads.
	Attica and the Northeastern Peloponnese Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 200m contours. Layers: administrative (periferies and Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient places, railways, rivers, and roads.
	Corinthia (1:250,000) Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 100m contours. Layers: Ancient City Walls, administrative (periferiesand Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient places, railways, rivers, and roads. Scale bar.
	Bioitia (1:333,333) Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 200m contours. Layers: administrative (periferies and Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient places, railways, rivers, and roads. Scale bar.
	Crete (1:750,000) Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 250m contours. Layers: administrative (Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient places,  rivers, and roads. Scale bar.
	Attica (1:250,000) Two hi-res Geo-Tif basemaps: Color and B&W w/ 100m contours. Layers: Ancient City Walls, administrative (periferiesand Kallikrates demes), land cover, modern cities, Pleiades ancient places, railways, rivers, roads, and urban area. Scale bar.
*see the GIS data section for Greece for the data sources.
Corinth Archaeological Data and Basemaps by American School of Classical Studies at Athens are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

GIS Data

The archaeological data, basemap, shapefiles, and optional layer files (see bottom of page for use of layer files) can be downloaded and assembled into a dynamic map using GIS software. The Corinth material is our work. It is followed by redistributed copies and modified versions of regional data with sources noted.

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Corinth archaeological data: cover the Corinthia, the ancient city of Corinth, or the central archaeological site (WGS 84, zone 34N). We will add to these shapefiles when possible.

• City walls: line shapefile for the Classical and LR city walls.
• Monuments: these are non-adjacent overlapping polygons circumscribed around the subject with place/monument names attached.
• Sites: point file with archaeological sites and few museums in the Corinthia. Also in Google Earth KMZ.
• Central archaeological area, ca. 325 B.C.E: line file plan of the monuments of the main site just before the construction of the South Stoa.
• Peirene state plan: new topographical survey of the Peirene Fountain completed in 2006.  Dangerous and unsurveyed areas were supplemented by Hill's drawings.
• Classical houses: Buildings I-IV were resurveyed for Corinth VII.6
• Underground water system: new survey data used to 'rubbersheet' Hill's plan of the Peirene underground tunnels.

• Sacred caves: a group of ten caves (points) in the Corinthia and beyond, assembled from various sources noted in the data.

• Surface geology with layer file: polygon shapefile of central portion of the Corinthia.

Corinth orthophotos, DEMs, and other products: produced from low level aerial photos in Agisoft Photoscan.
	Corinth Archaeological Site, Scale 5cm pixels, UTM zone 34N Orthophotomosaic, GeoTif 169 Mb DEM (digital surface model), GeoTif 331 Mb 1 m contours, SHP 56 Mb
	Peirene, Scale 5mm pixels, UTM zone 34N Orthophotomosaic, GeoTif, 236 Mb
	Korakou, UTM zone 34N Orthophotomosaic 2015, 3cm pixels, GeoTif, 338 Mb DEM (digital surface model), 50cm pixels, GeoTif, 2 Mb 25 cm contours from 2002 survey, SHP, 1.3 Mb XYZ points from 2002 survey, TXT, 19 Kb State plan from Blegen 1921, GeoTif, 700 Kb Orthophotomosaic from 1962 aerial photos, GeoTif, 6 Mb

Historical maps of the Corinthia: These raster images are rubberheeted and georeferenced to modern control points in UTM, zone 34N. Each zipped file contains a TIF and a TFW world file.
	Francesco Morosini map of central Corinthia, 1687: 720Mb, Dated on Christmas day several months after his army made it's "fortunate shot" destroying the Ottoman powder magazine (the Parthenon) during the seige of Athens. It was drawn with south oriented to the top and split over six linen sheets. In this file it is reoriented north to the top and reassembled in one image before georeferencing. Ancient features, contemporary buildings and roads, fountains and springs, fortifications and towers, and topographic features are highlighted on this map. The area to the east of the Isthmus still has quite a bit of distortion.
	Pierre Peytier map of Ancient Corinth, 1829: 122Mb, a small but accurate survey by the Morea Expedition shows that the lines of many roads in the village remain unchanged.

Greece shapefiles with optional layer files: Coverage is the entire country or greater (various UTM). Sources and versions noted below. The layer files are optional, created by us, to enrich the visualization of the data.

• Ancient Place Names and Layer File (Pleiades): points, 6Mb. This modified version was translated from Pleiades original CSV to a shapefile.
• Ancient Theaters (geodata.gov.gr): 43 points, 4Kb. This ia a modified version in which Corinthian theaters were appended to the original file.
• Cities in English and Greek (geodata.gov.gr): points, 4Kb
• Cities in Greek (Geofabrik/OSM): points, 425Kb
• Coastline lines (Geofabrik/OSM); lines, 319Mb
• Coastline water polygon and Layer File (Geofabrik/OSM): polygons, 15Mb. For this modified version, we clipped the file to include the waters just beyond the borders of Greece.
• Modern administrative boundaries (geodata.gov.gr): Greece, line 8Mb; Kapodistrias plan 1997, polygon 6Mb; Kallikratis plan 2011, polygon 6Mb; Peripheries 2008, polygon 3.6Mb
• Natural Features like inland hydrology and forests with Layer File (Geofabrik/OSM): polygons, 12Mb
• Points of Interest (OSM): over 156,000 points in CSV format includes amenities, shops, historic, transportation, natural, etc.: edited file, 3.2Mb, and original 'flat' download, 3Mb. Geofabrik has convenient POI as well but the site far fewer points and less associated data.
• Railways and Layer File (Geofabrik/OSM): lines, 900Kb
• Roads and Layer File (Geofabrik/OSM): lines, 78Mb
• Rivers and Layer File (geodata.gov.gr): lines, 2Mb
• Settlements in English (geodata.gov.gr): points, 217Kb
• Urban Atlas cities (EEA): polygons, 185Mb, includes Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Iraklion, Larisa, Volos, Ioannina, Kavala, Kalamata (zones >100,000 pop.)
• Waterways and Layer File (Geofabrik/OSM): lines, 5Mb
• Corine Land Cover Inventory from 2000 and Layer File (geodata.gov.gr): polygons, 99Mb

Basemap, contours, and ASTER DEM: Coverage is 36-39 degrees latitude and 20-26 degrees longitude. ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA. Bathymetry derived from EMODnet data

• Basemap.zip,118 Mb and BasemapWIthBathymetry.zip, 326 Mb: intended as a backdrop for the shapefiles on this page. The file is a zipped GeoTiff with a world file (.tfw) generated from the DEM below with naturally colored visualization (similar to the color maps at the top of the page) based on elevation, slope, and hillshade to provide a pleasant and informative background for other data. It retains the resolution of the original data which is nominally 1 arc-second or about 30 m per pixel, though actually less.
• Contour lines at 50 m interval and Layer File: lines generated from DEM, 15Mb
• Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Layer File: raster, 88Mb.  Mosaic from 1 degree x 1 degree DEMs.
• The European Environment Agency also has some very nice 1 arcsec (~30m) base maps derived from SRTM and ASTER GDEM.
• BathymetryDEM.zip, 929 Mb, from EMODnet data.

*Note that the rivers and place name data may seem repetitive but each dataset has strengths and weaknesses.

*Greek names encoded with ISO 88597 and may not display properly in ArcGIS. Default encoding for ESRI must be set on Windows via "regedit" as per this ESRI support page.

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