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 Welcome to Clio Ancient Art’s Links Page, containing a series of web links
that customers and other visitors to the site may find useful in researching purchases of antiquities and generally expanding
their knowledge of ancient art and antiquities.
www.britishmuseum.org
The British Museum. Very useful tool for searching images and text relating to ancient art, from the mundane to the
magnificent. Generally good quality images and detailed text, including provenance.
www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/index2.html
The Petrie Museum of Egyptology at University College, London. First rate search tool of the museum’s extensive
selection of Egyptian items, ranging from Neolithic to early Islamic. Images are good quality, although provenance
is sometimes lacking.
www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Good search tool for their extensive antiquities collections. Good images and text although
search tool can be awkward to use.
www.thinker.org
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Another good search tool. The images are high quality though the text is often limited.
http://aiad.org.uk/
Association of International Antiquities Dealers (AIAD), a not-for-profit international association of antiquities
dealers, ancient art dealers, numismatic dealers and other interested individuals who are keen to promote the positive aspects
of artifact ownership. The organization aims to promote responsible antiquities dealing and to provide a support network and
means of exchanging relevant information about fakes, forgeries, fraudulent misrepresentation and stolen goods with a view
to identifying such items offered for sale and notifying the appropriate authorities. AIAD promotes responsible trading which
necessarily includes meeting all legal requirements concerning reporting and documentation.
www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/home.php?publiclogin=1
The U.K. Portable Antiquities Scheme database. Great resource for small finds, particularly Iron Age and Roman antiquities.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme model is a very rational and equitable methodology for addressing the issue of looting.
http://medarch.weebly.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology Resources online. Despite one annoying pop-up
and a number of dead links, a great resource, featuring journals, links to other online resources, schools, institutes, etc.
One could spend many hours trolling the many resources.
http://archnet.asu.edu/
This includes a broad range of archaeological research resources, publications, websites, etc. worldwide but with plenty
of Classical, Near Eastern and Egyptian links. Potentially very useful.
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/
Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta. Through judicious buying, they have built one of the finest collections
of ancient art, particularly Egyptian art, in North America over the past several years. Both their search tool and collections
links provide useful information.
http://www.celator.com/
THE CELATOR, the world's premier journal for ancient coin collectors. www.wildwinds.com/coins/
For those interested in ancient numismatics, I highly recommend this site. It is a non-commercial reference, attribution
and valuation site for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins. Very useful and easy to use.
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