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Based in the Faculty of Classics CSAD is one of the world’s foremost centres for the study of the documentary evidence for the ancient world. It hosts projects of national and international significance in the fields of Greek and Roman epigraphy. CSAD maintains close links with the related disciplines of papyrology, numismatics and prosopography.

At the core of the Centre’s holdings lies a rich archive of notebooks, drawings and photographs, and one of the world’s largest collections of squeezes - a unique resource for palaeographic enquiry - donated by some of the great figures in the field. It includes the squeeze collections of George Forrest, Peter Fraser and Susan Sherwin-White, as well as the archives of Sir Christopher Cox, Michael Ballance, Anne Jeffery and David Lewis.

Since its foundation in 1995, the Centre has been home to research projects devoted to such disparate areas as Hadrian’s Wall, Roman Phrygia and Ptolemaic Egypt. The detailed scrutiny of the material aspects of writing - essential for deciphering documents that are difficult to read - is currently being developed through 3D digital imaging.

CHANGE: the development of the monetary economy of ancient Anatolia circa 630 - 30 BC

Crossreads: text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean

Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) Online.

Browse and discover the voices of the past, drawn from the writings of those who lived, served, and died in Roman...

Browse and discover the voices of the past, drawn from the writings of those who lived, served, and died in Roman Britain.

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions from Egypt

Explore the insights offered by the surviving public and private inscribed monuments, in a period shaped by the...

Explore the insights offered by the surviving public and private inscribed monuments, in a period shaped by the interplay between Egyptian and Greek culture.

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names - Lower Egypt and the Fayum

Over 100,000 names and 70,000 attestations of individuals baring Greek names rendered in Ancient Greek and/or Demotic...

Over 100,000 names and 70,000 attestations of individuals baring Greek names rendered in Ancient Greek and/or Demotic and Hieroglyphic Egyptian among other languages.

FAIR Epigraphy AHRC-DFG

Curating the field of digital epigraphy by making epigraphic records FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable...

Curating the field of digital epigraphy by making epigraphic records FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

LGPN is not just about names but about people. Every attested bearer of a name is included from those parts ancient...

LGPN is not just about names but about people. Every attested bearer of a name is included from those parts ancient world where Ancient Greek was the main the main language of the...

LGPN is not just about names but about people. Every attested bearer of a name is included from those parts ancient world where Ancient Greek was the main the main language of the written record.

The OXUS-INDUS Project

A resource for studying the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, c. 250 BCE - 100 CE in modern day Afghanistan,...

A resource for studying the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, c. 250 BCE - 100 CE in modern day Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and India.