Image Resources

Here are some sources to keep in mind if you need images for a project:

• Bible & Ancient Near East
  • EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies: a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies. Images can be browsed under four categories: Biblical Book, Geographical Location, Object Type, Topic.
  • ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative: project sponsored by the American Theological Library Association. You can search by keyword or browse available collections. Collections of relevance to Biblical studies include: Coins from ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods; Printed Images from the Sixteenth Century (incl. re. Biblical stories); Oxyrhynchus Papyri; Biblical Iconography: French Medieval Cathedrals
  • Holy Land Photos: Images provided by Carl Rasmussen, Bethel University: 196 sites documented by nearly 2000 photos.
  • Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World: Image links from Diotima site.
  • K.C. Hanson's Homepage: photographs relating to ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Greece, and Rome; links to papyri images.
    
    
• Church History / Religion in the Arts
  • AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity: a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity. Images can be browsed under four categories: Historical Era, Geographical Area, Object Type, Topic.
  • Index of Christian Art: produced at Princeton University, can presently provide access to complex information on approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art in the east and west from early apostolic times up to 1400 A.D.
  • ArtSTOR: founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.
  • Amico Library (Art History Images):consists of over 90,000 digital images of works of art from ancient to contemporary times representing world-wide cultural heritage.
  • Ecole Initiative Images: The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web.
    
    
• See also:
  • Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources: Image Collections
  • Digital Image Resources at Yale and Beyond