Classics at the University of Maryland

Using the Classics Department Image Collection

Contents:

The Classics Department's Slide Collection

As a Classics department faculty member, you have probably already used the slides in our collection in teaching your classes. The slides are housed in a metal cabinet (equipped with a light box) in the Seminar Room, Room 2407A. Each slide has a local number stamped on it. The first part of the number refers to the group of slides, which are loosely arranged by subject matter. The second part of the number indicates the ordinal number of the slide within this group. Knowing the local number of a slide can be very helpful in finding its record in the slide database.

Images on CD's

As part of the Caprina Project (described below), most of our slide collection was scanned onto individual Compact Disks. In addition to the slides in our collection, slides have been added to the collection as needed. These new slides lack local numbers.

Each compact disk is assigned a three-digit number, which is called its Caprina number. There are also several Zip disks onto which I've scanned Photoshop and JPeg versions of the images for CD 184 in three sizes.

Inside the cover of each CD are photographic cards with thumbnail images of each image on the CD.

Using the graphics application, Adobe Photoshop, you can pull images off the CD's and manipulate them for use on the Web or in PowerPoint presentations. Since most of the images in our collection are on Caprina, it is easiest to create links to these on the Web, rather than pulling images off the CD's. See the next section for details.

The Caprina Project

Most of the images in our collection are posted on the Web in three sizes on the Caprina site. Caprina images can only be viewed from campus computers or from a campus dial-up, so if you try to view them from another Internet Service Provider (such as AOL or Erol's) you will not be able to see them. Therefore, if you need to create a webpage with images that are going to be viewed offcampus, you need to either download these images from Caprina, or take them off the photo CD's, and re-post them to the server.

You can also easily download images posted on Caprina for use in PowerPoint presentations. To download an image from the web, place your cursor on the image and hold the mouse down. This will bring up a pull down menu. Select 'Save As', give the image a name with the extension .jpg, and save the image to your desktop or to a folder on the desktop. The file is then ready to be inserted into your webpage or PowerPoint presentatation. You may open the image in Photoshop if you want to make changes ( but it is not a good idea to make changes and resave an image once it's in a .jpeg format, as you can lose information each time you save).

When using a PC, place your cursor on the image and click and hold down the right hand button on your mouse. Then select the Download command from the list, and save the file to your desktop.

But for most on-campus uses, it's easiest to create a link to the images.

For fullsize images (approx. 768 x 512), the URL is:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/Caprina/Images/fullsize/###/###.jpg

Ex: http://www.inform.umd.edu/Caprina/Images/fullsize/172/001.jpg

For thumbnail images (approx. 192 x 128) the URL is:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/Caprina/Images/thumbnail/###/###t.jpg

Ex.: http://www.inform.umd.edu/Caprina/Images/thumbnail/172/001t.jpg

For hires (high-resolution) images (approx. 1536 x 1024) the URL is:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/Caprina/Images/hires/###/###h.jpg

Ex.: http://www.inform.umd.edu/Caprina/Images/hires/172.001h.jpg

To view these images, open Netscape Navigator, and type the URL of the image you want in the address window. To determine the exact pixel size of the image (you may need to know this if you are inserting images into webpages) go to "View" and "Page Info." and it will tell you the pixel dimensions.

You can also copy and paste the URL of the image from the record in the FileMaker Pro database into the URL window of your browser. 

Unfortunately, only a small portion of the Caprina images have been catalogued, so outside of our image database, it is difficult to search for images by subject. However, some of the images that are in the Visual Resource Center slide collection have been catalogued and are searchable through an online search screen.

There are also several image pages from UMD classes that list images that may be useful in Classics classes:

Steps for Taking Images off CD's:
  1. On the MacIntosh, go to the Apple pulldown menu in the upper left hand corner. Select 'Adobe Photoshop.' Or go to the 'Launcher' menu and double-click on the icon for Adobe Photoshop.
  2. Put the CD in the CD drive and close it.
  3. Go up to the File menu and select 'Open.' When the Open dialog box appears, make sure the pulldown tab at the top is set on 'Desktop.' Under the 'Desktop' menu, double-click on the CD icon. This will open up the CD. There are two folders on the CD. You want to double-click on the folder named 'Photos' to open it. In this folder, there are five groups of images in different pixel sizes: 1536 X 1024(high-resolution or 'hires'), 192 X 128 (thumbnail), 3072 X 2048, 384 X 256, and 768 X 512 (fullsize).

    The hires images are extra large in size, and are intended for use in PowerPoint (their extra large size allows them to be printed out about approxiamately 8 X 10 inches, as digital images tend to "shrink" when printed, due to the higher pixel resolution of most printers).

    The fullsize images are designed to fill most monitor screens.

    The 384 X 256 image is a good size for use in web pages.

    The thumbnail sizes are intended for use in pages where you want to limit the time it takes the page to loads (thumbnails contain less information, so the page loads more quickly). Often web page designers will put thumbnails on a page with links to larger versions of these images.

  4. In most cases, you will have to adjust and manipulate the image in Photoshop and save it as a JPEG File in order to be able to use it on the web.

    5. Let's go through the steps of manipulating an image in Photoshop for use on the Web. I will use image 168/001 as an example, and will choose the fullsize format.

    1. Put CD 168 in the CD drive.

    2. In Photoshop, go to Open. Click on Desktop, and then double-click on the icon for the CD.

    3. Double-click on the Photos folder. Highlight and double-click on the 768 X 512 folder.

    4. When this folder is open, double click on image 001. Photoshop will open this image.

    5. The image will appear in Photoshop. This particular image is positioned horizontally, when it
    should be vertical. To reposition it, go to the Image menu at the top of your screen, select Rotate Image from the pulldown menu, and then select 90 degrees CW (clockwise). This will move your image in the correct position.

    6. You will next need to crop the image to remove the dark space around the edges. Go to the toolbar in the upper left hand corner and select the cropping tool, which is the first tool in the left hand column. Click and hold down on this tool and find the last of the cropping tools in that rool. Then place the cursor in the upper right hand corner to draw a box around the image. Use the square "handles" of the cropping margin to fit the dotted box around the image. When you are ready to crop, double-click on the image, and it will automatically crop it.

    7. Many of the images on the CD are too dark and need to have their color and levels adjusted. Go to "Image" at the top menu, and select "Adjust" and then "Auto Levels." Photoshop will automatically adjust the levels within the image. For most images, this is sufficient.

    8. Sometimes it's necessary to make additional manipulations to the images. In these cases, use the "Levels" tool (Image/Adjust/Levels). You will see a line graph of the tones of the pixels in the image, with three triangles below that can be moved to adjust the appearance of the image. To lighten the image, move the central triangle a little bit towards the left, and move the right hand triangle a little bit to the left.

    9. To adjust the color balance of the image, go to "Image", "Adjust," and "Color Balance." There are three ranges, between Cyan and Red, Magenta and Green, and Yellow and Blue. By moving the arrows below each range, you can increase or lessen the amounts of each color in the image. However, changing the color balance may also effect the levels in the image, so you may have to go back into the 'Levels' command after you've adjusted the color balance.

    10. You can also change the image through the Hue/Saturation command. Go to "Image," "Adjust," and "Hue/Saturation." There are three ranges, one for Hue, one for Saturation, and one for Brightness/Contrast. By moving the triangle under Hue, you can change the color of the image. By moving the triangle under Saturation, you can increase or remove the amount of color in the image (to make a color image into a black and white image, move the Saturation arrow all the way to the left. This is particularly useful for black-and-white images that have a reddish or greenish cast to them). By moving the Brightness/Contrast triangle, you increase or decrease the brightness of ALL the pixels in the image.

    11. If you want to go back to the way the image appeared before you made changes, go to the History palette (if it is not already on the screen, go to "View" and select "Show History." When you find the History palette, you may scroll up and down and find previous actions. You may select one of these actions by clicking on them to go back to what the image looked like before certain actions were completed. To undo an action you have just performed, you can go to the Edit menu and select Undo.

    12. You can also change the image size and resolution. Go to Image, select Image Size, and you will get a dialog box showing the Image dimensions in pixels (pixels are the blocks of light that make up the image), the print size in inches (because printers have higher resolutions than computer screens, most images print out larger than they appear on a screen), and below that, the resolution in DPI (dots, or pixels, per inch). The images on the CD's are all scanned to 72 dpi, which is the resolution needed for JPEG or GIF images that are posted to the Web.
    If you want to change the size of the image, you can change the height or width in the dialog box for the pixel dimensions. Make sure the "Constrained Proportions" box is checked, so that the width decreases in correspondence to the height. Keep in mind that whenever you reduce the size of the image, you lose information, so try not to reduce an image's original size by too much (this is one reason why there are several different sizes scanned onto the CD).

    13. When you have the image the way you want it, go to File and select Save As. Save the file first with the extension ".psd" (Photoshop format) onto the desktop or onto a Zip disk, so that you will have an original from which to work from in case you want to resize or alter the image in the future. Then save a copy as a JPEG file by putting the extension ".jpeg" at the end of the file name. Go to the pulldown menu at the bottom of the dialog box and make sure that "JPeg" is selected as a file type. After you've pressed the Save button, you will see a dialog box called "JPEG options" which will allow you to select the quality of the file on a scale of 1 to 10. A JPEG file with a quality rating of 10 is a lot larger than a file with a quality of 5, so in the interest of keeping your files smaller, select 5 as your quality rating.

    14. Now your JPEG image is ready to be posted onto WebSpinner or posted into your web page. Remember, JPEG images may deteriorate and lose information each time you open them, so if you want to make changes in your image, you should always go back to the Photoshop (.psd) file, make the changes, and replace the existing JPEG file.

    However, all of the images on our CD's are already posted to the Web in three sizes, fullsize (approx. 768 X 512 pixels), thumbnail (approx. 192 X 128 pixels) and hires (approx. 1536 X 1024 pixels), and have already been cropped and brightened. You can easily creat links to these images on your web pages, which is described in more depth below in the section on the Caprina Project.

The Online Search Screen

As of this time, the screen for searching our Classics database is still not on line, although it should be up and running by the end of the semester. It is possible to search for specific slides using the FileMaker Pro database in our department.

The FileMaker Pro Slide Database

The database is on the desktop in a purple folder labelled "slidecat." Double-click on the folder to open it. Then double-click on the FileMaker Pro icon labelled "slides" to open the database.

Doing a search:You can search for particular slide records under one or more classification fields. Go to Mode and then select Find. You will be given a blank record screen. Enter your search terms in one or more fields and then click on the button labelled Find. The database will then display all the records that meet the search criteria. Use the scroll bar on the right hand side to scroll through the records. To view the images corresponding to the records, just open up Netscape Navigator and copy and paste the URL's of the images for each record (in the database, these can be found in the lower left hand corner of the records under "thumbnail," "fullsize," and "hires.") into Netscape.

If you know the Caprina number or local number of the image whose record you need to find, you can enter these in the applicable search fields. If you are looking for images of a particular character from mythology, it is helpful to search in the title field and/or character fields. Remember to try different spellings or try searching under a different field if your first search does not yield results.

You may wish to consult the Description of Search Fields and the Conventions for Character Names.

Printing records: It is possible to print out individual records without having to print out the entire database. You can select the records you want to print out by checking the box in the lower left hand corner labelled "mark for printing." When you have checked the records you want to print, go to "Mode" and "Find", and then, in the search screen, check the "mark for printing" box. Double-click on "Find." The database will select all checked records. Then go to "File" and select "Print." You will need to change the selection of the printing parameters (look for the dialog box in the upper left hand corner) from "General" to "FileMaker Pro." It is crucial that you change it to Filemaker Pro, otherwise you will print out the entire database. Once you select this, you will get a screen for Filemaker Pro. Select "Records being browsed" under the Print menu and then click on the Print button. The printer will print out only the selected records. Remember to uncheck the boxes after you finish printing. You can do this by going to "Script" and then selecting "Uncheck Boxes." The program will automatically go through the database and uncheck all the boxes.

Adding records to the database:

Please check with Eva Stehle (es39@umail.umd.edu) before adding any records to the FileMaker Pro or ISIS databases.

If you want to add new images to the database, you should make sure that you enter a new record for each image. First of all, you need to get a Caprina number for the group of images you wish to add to the web (contact Ellen Borkowski at ey9@umail.umd.edu) and post those images in that Caprina number's folder on WebSpinner. Then create a new record for each image with a corresponding Caprina number.

To create a new record, go to "Mode" and "New Record." Fill in the appropriate fields for the image. Remember,when cataloguing new images, it is always best to include as much information about the image as possible.

The database automatically saves entered information whenever you move the cursor to a new field. However, when you are adding new records, make sure you update the backup copies. There is one backup copy in the Slides folder and others on a Zip disk. Go to "File" and "Save As" and save the backup as "slidesbackup." When it asks you if you want to replace the existing copy, select "Replace."

When saving a backup on Zip disk, save it as "slidesbackup" followed by a consecutive number in the title. That way we will have copies of the database as it existed in various stages.

Be very careful when you are doing searches that you are entering the information into the search screen, not an existing record itself.

Conventions for character names in the database:

There are certain rules that have been set for spelling names of characters in the database.

I. Spelling

The spellings used for the character names are those that we felt were most likely to be familiar to a speaker of English, but many variant spellings exist for most mythical characters. If you are looking for a name which does not seem to appear in the database, try checking under names with similiar spellings. Remember especially that the following sets of letters are often interchangeable in the spelling of names of mythical characters:

At the end of a name: -os  and -us; -oi , u, and ou..

For example, Klytaimnestra is the smae as Clytaemnestra, Oidipous is the same as Oedipus.

II. Multiple Names for a Single Character

The Greek name of a character is always given first in the character list. If the character was usually identified differently by the Romans, the Roman names or names of that character will appear in the parentheses. For example: Zeus (Jupiter) or Dionysus (Bacchus, Liber). In the second case, although Bacchus was a Greek name, it was one used more frequently by the Romans.

Some characters are identified by different names at different times even within a single culture. In these cases, the most common name is given first and addditional names are separated by a slash. For example: "Paris/Alexander" (the Trojan prince who took Helen from Menelaus) and "Ascanius/Iulus" (the son of Aeneas who founded the city of Alba Longa).

III. Multiple Characters With the Same Name.

Sometimes two or more different characters in the database have the same name. In these cases, additional information appears in the name after a comma to allow you to distinguish between them. For example: "Ajax, son of Telamon" and "Ajax, son of Oileus" are different characters, although both are associated with the story of the Trojan War. Likewise, "Scylla, sea-monster" is different from "Scylla, daughter of Nisus."

Description of search fields: These fields were set up by the graduate assistant who created the image database. Below is a description of each search field. Not all record fields are filled in, or need to be filled in when you are entering information for new records. There is an asterisk * besides the most important fields:

We will soon be phasing out the FileMaker Pro database and will instead by entering new records online using ISIS.  Please check with Eva Stehle (es39@umail.umd.edu) first before entering any new records into the FileMaker Pro database.

Explanations of Fields in FileMaker Pro databases:

Database versions  and locations:

All database versions are stored in the folder called "slidecat" on the desktop of the computer in Eva's office.

Eventually the FileMaker Pro database will be phased out, and entering of new records will be done only online using ISIS.   To avoid the potential problem of the online version differing from the local version, it is important to designate one person who will be responsible for entering or changing records. 

Description of Fields

Explanations of Fields in FileMaker Pro databases:

Database versions  and locations:

All database versions are stored in the folder called "slidecat" on the desktop of the computer. 

Eventually the FileMaker Pro database will be phased out, and entering of new records will be done only online using ISIS, the online version of the database.   To avoid the potential problem of the online version differing from the local version, it is important to designate one person who will be responsible for entering or changing records.  You may not need or want to use all fields, but I have placed an asterisk besides fields that are used most often.

Description of Fields

Below are descriptions of each field in the FileMakerPro database, and, in brackets, the name that this field will be called in ISIS, if different from the field name in the database.

*Description 

Description is a brief summary of what the image depicts. 

Example: "Hermes leading Persephone out of Hades" would be the description for a particular image taken from a vase painting, or "Temple of Apollo at Delphi: view from west" might be used to describe an image of a building or site. 

It is important that any Latin or Greek names follow the spelling conventions for that name, and that they remain consistent.

Title

Title indicates a name that has been given or assigned to the subject depicted in an object.  Title is used especially for paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance onwards which are known by a specific title.

Examples: 
"The Birth of Venus" (by Sandro Botticelli)
"Circe" (by Dosso Dossi)

Most objects from the ancient world will not have a title, except for those objects that have become known in modern times by a particular name (such as the François Vase, the Ludovisi Throne, or the Artemis of Ephesus).

*Culture

Culture indicates the group or nation of people who created the work of art.  Culture does not necessarily indicate country; for example, a black-figure vase may be classified as "Greek" even if it was made in Sicily, since Sicily was colonized by the ancient Greeks.

Use the following fields from the drop-down menu.  If the culture you are looking for does not appear in the drop-down list, you may add a new culture by typing it into the field.
Greek
Roman
Egyptian
French
British
German
Italian
Mesopotamian
Spanish
American
Etruscan
Persian
Dutch
Flemish

Country [not in ISIS]

We have discontinued use of the Country field.  Information about the country from which the object came (if this information is known) should be included in the Site/Origin field.

*Period

Period indicates a historical or art historical span of time to which an object belongs. Some periods may also be specific to a certain period within a specified geographical location (such as Minoan or Cycladic). You should always indicate the period unless you are not sure of when the object was created. 

Republican and Imperial are both Roman periods.

Select the appropriate period from the pulldown menu.  If you do not find a particular period listed, it may be entered in the field.

Below are period designations and the approximate dates or date ranges for each:

Neolithic 
Minoan (3000 - 1000 BCE)
Mycenaean (1450 - 1200 BCE)
Clycladic (3000 - 1550 BCE)
Geometric (c. 900 - 700 BCE)
Archaic (600 - 480 BC)
Classical (480 - 323 BC)
Hellenistic (323 - 150 BC)
Republican (590 BCE - 14 CE)
Imperial  (14 CE - 476 CE)
Medieval (approx. 500 CE - 1350 CE) 
Renaissance (approx. 1350 - 1600 CE)
Modern (1600 CE - present)

*Date

Include the exact date or range of dates for the object, as well as the century.  You should also include the abbreviation for the era: BCE (before the common era) or CE (common era). BC (before Christ) is the old term for BCE, and AD (anno domine [in the year of the Lord]) is the old term for CE.  The century should always follow the specific date, separated by a comma.

If no specific date is known, just put in the century.  If you are not sure what the century is, leave the field blank.

Use the following formats:
Range of dates: xxxx - xxxx BCE or CE, xth cen. BCE or CE Example: 350 - 300 BCE, 4th cen. BCE
Range of dates encompassing two eras:  xxxx BCE - xxxx CE, xth cen. BCE - xth cen. CE Example: 20 BCE - 10 CE, 1st cen. BCE - 1st cen. CE
approximate dates: c. xxxx BCE or CE, xth cen. BCE or CE Example: c. 1920 CE, 20th cen. CE

Characters:

The characters field is used to indicate individuals (such as Athena or Hermes) or types (such as maenads or satyrs) from mythology who are depicted on a given object.  Character names may be selected from the pulldown list.  If the character you are looking for is not listed, you may add the name to the list.  Be sure to follow the proper spelling conventions . You may select more than one character.

For the Greco-Roman pantheon, the Greek name is listed first, followed by the Roman name in parentheses.  Example: Athena (Minerva).

List of characters:

Achates
Achelous
Achilles
Acis
Acrisius
Actaeon
Admetus
Adonis
Aeetes
Aegisthus
Aeneas
Aeolus
Aeon
Aeson
Aethra
Agamemnon
Agave
Ajax, son of Oileus
Ajax, son of Teleamon
Alcestis
Alcmena
Alektos
Althea
Amalthea
Amata
amazon
Amphiaraus
Amphion
Amphitrite
Amphytrion
Anchises
Andromache
Andromeda
Anna
Antaeus
Antigone
Antiope
Antonia the Younger
Aphrodite (Venus)
Apollo
Apsyrtus
Arachne
Arcadia (personification)
Ares (Mars)
Arete (Virtus)
Argonauts
Argos
Argus, shipwright of Argo
Ariadne
Arion on dolphin
Aristaeus
Artemis (Diana)
Ascanius/Iulus
Asclepius
Astyanax
Atalanta
Athena (Minerva)
Atlas
Attis
Augustus
Baucis
Bellerophon
Bienor
birds, Stymphalian
boar, Erymanthian
Boread
Briseis
bull, Cretan 
Cacus
Cadmus
Caeneus
Calais
Callisto
Calypso
Cassandra
Castor
Cecropes
Centaur
Cephalus
Cerberus
Charon
Chimera
Charon
Chiron
Cicero
Circe
Clytaemnestra
Clytemnestra
Coronis
Creon, king of Corinth
Creon, son of Menoeceus
Crete (personification)
Creusa/Glauce, daughter of Creon
Creusa, wife of Aeneas
Croesus
Curetes
Cybele
Cyclops
D. Ahenobarbus
Daedalus
Danae
Danaids
Daphne
deer, Cyreneian
Deianira
Deidamia
Demeter (Ceres)
Deucalion
Dido (Elissa)
Diomedes, son of Ares
Diomedes, son of Tydeus
Dionysus (Bacchus, Liber)
Dioscuri
Dirce
Echo
Egeria
Eileithuia
Electra
Elpenor
Endymion
Eos (Aurora)
Ephialtas
Erechtheus
Erichthonius
Eriphyle
Eris (Discordia)
Eros (Cupid, Amor)
Eros (non-individualized)
erotes
Eteodes
Europa
Eurydice
Eurykleia
Eurystheus
Evander
faun
fury
Gaea/Ge (Terra, Earth)
Galatea
Galatea, lover of Pygmalion
Ganymede
Geryon
Giant
gorgon
grace
Graeae
Hades (Pluto, Dis)
harpy
Hebe
Hecate
Hector
Helen
Helios (Sol)
Helle
Hemera (Dies)
Hephaestus (Vulcan)
Hera (Juno)
Heracles (Hercules)
Hermaphroditus
Hermes (Mercury)
Hero
Hesperides
Hestia (Vesta)
Himeros (Desire)
Hippodamia
Hippolytus
Hippomenes/Milanion
Homer
horae
horses, Diomedian
Hyacinthus
hydra, Lernaean
Hygieia
Hylas
Hyllus
Hyperphas
Icarius
Icarus
Iliad
Ino
Io
Iolaus
Iphigeneia
Iris
Ismene
Itys
Ixion
Janus
Jason
Julius Caesar
Kore
Kronos (Saturn)
Ladon
Laestrygonian
Laocoon
Laomedon
Lapith
Latinus
Lavinia
Leander
Leda
Leto (Latona)
Leucippidae
Linus
lion, Nemean
Lycurgus
Lynceus
Lysa
maenad
Maia
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Curtius
Mark Anthony
Marsyas
Medea
Medusa
Meleager
Memnon
Menelaus
Midas
Mimus
minotaur
Morpheus (Somnus)
Musaeus
muse
Mirtilus
Narcissus
Nausicaa
Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus
nereid
Nereus
Nero
Nessus
Nike (Victory)
Numa Pompilius
Numitor
nymph
Nyx (Nox)
oceanid
Octavia
Odysseus (Ulysses)
Odyssey
Oedipus
Oenomaus
Omphale
Orestes
Orion
Orpheus
Orthus
Ovid
Palinurus
Pan (Faunus)
Pandora
Papposilenus
Parcai
Paris/Alexander
Pasiphae
Patroclus
Pegasus
Peleus
Pelias
Pelops
Penelope
Penthesilea
Pentheus
Persephone (Proserpina)
Perseus
Phaedra 
Phanes
Philemon
Philoctetes
Philomela
Phineus
Phoenix
Pholus
Phrixus
Pinthous
Pityus
Polydeukes (Pollux)
Polyneices
Polyphemus
Polyxena
Poseidon (Neptune)
Priam
Priapus
Procne
Procris
Prometheus
Proteus
Psyche, lover of Cupid
Pygmalion
Pylades
Pyramus
Pyrrha
Pytho
Remus
Rhadmanthus
Rhapsode
Rhea
river god
Roma
Romulus
Salmacis
Satyr
Scylla
Scylla, daughter of Nisus
Scylla, sea-monster
seer
Selene (Luna)
Semele
sibyl
Silenus
siren
Sisyphus
Sphinx
Sterope
Sthenobaea
Syrinx
Talus
Tantalus
Tarpeia
Talus
Teiresias
Telemachos
Telephus
Tellus
Tereus
Tharos
Theseus
Thetis
Thisbe
Thracian women
Tiber Pater
Tiphyus
Tiresias
titan
Tithonos
Tityus
Triptolemus
triton
Trivia
Typhon
Vespasian
winds
Zetes
Zetheus
Zeus (Jupiter)

Keywords

The keywords field is used to indicate significant themes or content depicted on an object.  For example, Titian's Rape of Europa has the keyword "loves of Zeus," Keywords may be selected from the pulldown list.  You may select more than one keyword. 

List of keywords:

abduction
acanthus
Acropolis
Aegean
Aeneid
Alexander the Great
altar
amphitheater
Argonauts
Asia Minor
Athens
athlete
Attica
attributes
Augustus
baby
basket
bath
bird
birth
bread
bull of Marathon
Campania
cave
chariot
children
chorus
chous
cosmogony
Crete
dance
dialect
dining
dolphin
eagle
Eleusis
Epic cycle
equestrian
Fall of Troy
festival
fillet
fountain
funeral
Gaul
gigantomachy
Golden Fleece
government
grain
grave
griffin
harp
herm
Hesiod
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
horse
hunter
Iliad
Julius Caesar
katabasis/Underworld journey
knight
kore
Krateriskos
Labors of Heracles
Latium
Leopard
loves of Zeus
Macedonia
marriage
mask
mourning
museum
music
Mycenae
Nysa
Odyssey
olive tree
omphalos
oracle
Oresteia
ostrich
owl
Parnassus
phallus
Phoenician
pig
pottery
priestess
procession
Rome
sacrifice (animal)
Santorini
Scythian
sea
Seven against Thebes
ship-cart
Sicily
sickle
slave
snake
soldier
Sparta
spinning
symposium
Telesterion
theater
Thebes
Thera
thiasos
titantomachy
torch
Trajan
trident
tripod
Trojan horse
Trojan War
“Trojan Women”
Underworld/Afterlife
Vergina
voting
votive offering
war
weaving
wedding
winged chariot
wolf
women
worship

Mark for Printing [not in ISIS]

This field (only available in the FileMaker Pro database) is a checkbox that allows you to check off and print selected records.  To do this, click on the box to select this field for the records you wish to print.  When you are ready to print, go to Mode and Find.  Check off the Mark for Printing box, and then click on the Find button.  FileMaker Pro will find only those records that you have checked off.   Go to File and Print, and make sure you select "FileMaker Pro" as the type of file in the pulldown menu below the printer selection box.  You should also check off the "Records being browsed" and then click on the Print button.

You must remember to uncheck the boxes after you are finished printing. To do this, first go to "Select" and then "Find All."  Then go to "Script" and select "uncheck boxes." FileMaker Pro will run the script  that will uncheck all boxes in the database.

The following four fields are only available in the FileMakerPro database.  Each contains a link to a version of the image that is posted online in the Caprina image directory on the Inform server.  To view the image, cut and paste the full URL into the URL selection window of your browser, and hit enter.  To download the image to your home or office computer, click and hold the mouse button and select "Save Image As," give the image a title and "jpg" extension, and save it in your desired directory.  On a PC, use the right-hand button of your mouse.

Thumbnail [Not in ISIS]

Contains the URL or web address of the thumbnail size image, which is approximately 192 x 128 pixels in size, depending on the shape of the image.

Fullsize [Not in ISIS]

Contains the URL or web address of the standard size image, which is approximately 768 x 512 pixels in size, depending on the shape of the image.

Hires [Not in ISIS]

Contains the URL or web address of the standard size image, which is approximately 1536 x 1024 pixels in size, depending on the shape of the image.

Websize [Not in ISIS]

This field is no longer used.

Picture [Not in ISIS]

Some of the records have a thumbnail image of the object.  Due to the amount of memory that the images take up in the database, the practice of including a thumbnail image was discontinued.

Object [Object Type]

Describes the type of media, such as painting, sculpture, architecture, and vase painting. “Site” is used to signify photographs of archeological parks or complexes that consist of more than one building (such as the Sanctuary at Delphi).
Object may be selected from a pulldown list.

List of object types:

architecture
armor
box
cartoon
ceiling fresco
ceiling painting
ceramic
coin
diagram
drawing
engraving
etching
figurine
fresco
garment
gemstone
illustration
inscription
intarsia
jewelry
lamp
loom weight
magazine illustration
manuscript illumination
manuscript illustration
map
mask
metalwork
model
mosaic
mosaic pavement
mural
oil sketch
ornamental relief
painted tablet
painting
photograph
photograph of performance
pottery
reconstruction drawing
relief sculpture
relief sculpture (copy)
relief sculpture (diagram)
relief sculpture (reconstruction)
sarcophagus
sarcophagus relief
sculpture
sculpture (copy)
sculpture (reconstruction)
sculpture (replica)
site
site plan
sketch (of lost painting)
tapestry cartoon series
tomb painting
vase painting
vase painting (facsimile)
votive relief
wall painting
wall-painting
weaponry
woodcut
Other

Object Subcategory 

Gives more detail about a particular object type.  For example, the subcategory of a vase painting might be “red-figure volute krater.”

Material

Specifies the type of material that the object was made from, if known (i.e. marble, wood, etc.).

Artist

Lists artist name (if known), with the last name followed by the first name, with birth and death dates in parentheses if known. Object may be selected from a pulldown list.

Repository [Holding Institution]

Specifies the museum or collection which owns the object.

1) Format should be museum name followed by city, state abbreviation (if USA), and country in parentheses   Ex.: Metropolitan Museem of Art (NY, NY, USA)

2) If the museum or gallery is associated with a city and the city’s name is part of the museum name, put the city name at the beginning of the museum name 
Ex.: Orvieto Opera del Duomo Museum (Orvieto, Italy), Florence Archaeological Museum (Florence, Italy)

3) For consistency’s sake, use an Anglicized version of a museum name for foreign names [such as Rouen Fine Arts Museum (Rouen, France)] unless it is better known by its name in the native language [Ex: Kunsthistoriches Museum (Vienna, Austria), Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy)]

4) Always check the pulldown list to see if the repository has already been entered.  If you do not see the name anywhere, you will have to enter a new record in the list.

5) Note that if a museum is named after an individual (such as the Gustave Moreau Museum), it will be alphabetized in the pull-down list by the last name of the person (so this museum would be found under “M”).

List of repositories:

Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece)
Agora Museum (Athens, Greece)
American Numismatic Society (NY, NY, USA)
Antikensammlungen (Munich, Germany)
Antiquarium Comunale (Rome, Italy)
Antiquarium, Wittelsbach Residence (Munich, Germany)
Arezzo Civic Museum (Arezzo, Italy)
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, England)
Athens National Museum (Athens, Greece)
Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham University (Birmingham, England)
Bargello National Museum (Florence, Italy)
Basel Antikenmuseum &  Sammlung Ludwig (Basel, Switzerland)
Berlin Antiquarium (Berlin, Germany)
Berlin Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz Gemaldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)
Biblioteca Marciana (Venice, Italy)
Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris, France)
Bibliotheque Royale (Brussels, Belgium)
Boijsman Van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Bologna Civic Museum (Bologna, Italy)
Borghese Gallery (Rome, Italy)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA)
Boulogne-sur-Mer Municipal Museum (Boulogne-sur-Mer, France)
Brauron Archaeological Museum (Brauron, Greece)
Brescia Civic Museum (Brescia, Italy)
British Museum (London, England)
Brussels Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Brussels, Belgium)
Budapest Museum (Budapest, Hungary)
Byzantine and Christian Museum (Athens, Greece)
Cabinet des Medailles (Paris, France)
Capdimonte Museum (Naples, Italy)
Capitoline Museum (Rome, Italy)
Cassino Archaeological Museum (Cassino, Italy)
Chalkis Archaeological Museum (Chalkis, Greece)
Charlottenburg Staatliche Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Cherchel Museum (Algiers, Algeria)
Chiusi Museum (Chiusi, Italy)
Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA, USA)
Cologne Museum (Cologne, Germany)
Conde Museum (Chantilly, France)
Conservatori Museum (Rome, Italy)
Constantinople Museum (Constantinople, Turkey)
Copenhagen National Museum of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Corfu Museum (Corfu, Greece)
Corinth Archaeological Museum (Corinth, Greece)
Corpus Christi College (Cambridge, England)
Corsini Gallery (Rome, Italy)
Dahlem Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Delphi Museum (Delphi, Greece)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, USA)
Dulurich Collection (London, England)
Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris, France)
Eleusis Museum (Eleusis, Greece)
Ephesus Museum (Ephesus, Turkey)
Este Gallery (Modena, Italy)
Farnese Gallery (Rome, Italy)
Ferrara National Archaeological Museum (Ferrara, Italy)
Florence Archaeological Museum (Florence, Italy)
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Frick Collection (NY, NY, USA)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA, USA)
J.P. Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Gemaldegalerie (Dresden, Germany)
Glyptothek (Munich, Germany)
Granet Museum (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican (Rome, Italy)
Guernacci Museum (Volterra, Italy)
Hamburg Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
Heim Gallery (London, England)
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Hirschorn Gallery (Washington, DC, USA)
Huntington Hartford Collection, New York Cultural Center (NY, NY, USA)
Jatta Collection (Ruvo, Italy)
Kerameikos Cemetary (Athens, Greece)
Kunsthistoriches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
Lambese Municipal Museum (Lambese, Algeria)
Lecce Provincial Museum (Lecce, Italy)
Leiden University Library (Leiden, Netherlands)
Lille Fine Art Museum (Lille, France)
Liverpool County Museum (Liverpool, England)
Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
Madrid National Archaeological Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Manchester City Art Gallery (Manchester, England)
Mansell Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY, NY, USA)
Milan Archaeological Museum (Milan, Italy)
Gustave Moreau Museum (Paris, France)
Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Italy)
Museum of Modern Art (NY, NY, USA)
Munich Museum fur Antike Kleinkunst (Munich, Germany)
Mykonos Museum (Mykonos, Greece)
Naples National Archaeological Museum (Naples, Italy)
National Gallery (London, England)
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA)
Norbert Schimmel Collection (NY, NY, USA)
North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC, USA)
Nuremberg Museum (Nuremberg, Germany)
Ny Carlsburg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Olympia Museum (Olympia, Greece)
Orvieto Opera del Duomo Museum (Orvieto, Italy)
Paestum Museum (Paestum, Italy)
Palais Bourbon (Paris, France)
Palatine Museum (Rome, Italy)
Palazzo Altemps Museum (Rome, Italy)
Palazzo Barberini, National Gallery of Antique Art (Rome, Italy)
Palazzo Doria (Genoa, Italy)
Palazzo del Drago (Rome, Italy)
Palazzo Magnon (Bologna, Italy)
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (Rome, Italy)
Palazzo Poggi (Bologna, Italy)
Palazzo Spada (Rome, Italy)
Palazzo Vecchio (Florence, Italy)
Palermo National Museum (Palermo, Italy)
Pella Museum (Pella, Greece)
Pergamon Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Phillips Collection (Washington, DC, USA)
Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)
Pinnau Collection
Pitti Gallery (Florence, Italy)
Pompeii National Archaeological Park (Pompeii, Italy)
Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Private Collection
Private Collection (Michael Ayrton)
Private Collection (Count Minutoli Tegrimi)
Private Collection (Mrs. Bryson Burroughs, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Private Collection (NY, NY, USA)
Private Collection (Parke, Davis)
Ravenna Museum (Ravenna, Italy)
Private Collection (Sweden)
Reggio Calabria National Museum (Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Rheinisches Landesmuseum (Trier, Germany)
Ella Riegel Memorial Museum, Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ringling Museum (Sarasota, FL, USA)
Rouen Fine Arts Museum (Rouen, France)
Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp, Belgium)
Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Brussels, Belgium)
Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Canada)
Sackler Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis, MO, USA)
Samos Museum (Samos, Greece)
Scala Photographic Service (Florence, Italy)
Schloss Fasanerie Museum (Eichenzell, Germany)
Soprintendenza alle Antichita (Naples, Italy)
Sperlonga National Archaeological Museum (Sperlonga, Italy)
Sousse Museum (Sousse, Tunisia)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Kassel, Germany)
Stettin Museum (Greifswald, Germany)
Subterranean Basilica (Rome, Italy)
Taranto National Museum (Taranto, Italy)
Tarquinia National Museum (Tarquinia, Italy)
Tate Gallery (London, England)
Terme Museum (Rome, Italy)
Tarragona National Archaeological Museum (Tarragona, Spain)
Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH, USA)
Torlonia Museum (Rome, Italy)
Toronto National Museum (Toronto, Canada)
Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy)
University of Leiden Library (Leiden, Netherlands)
University of Canterbury (Christ Church, England)
University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Vatican Cemetery (Rome, Italy)
Vatican Library (Rome, Italy)
Vatican Museum (Rome, Italy)
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England)
Vigeland Sculpture Park (Oslo, Norway)
Villa Albani (Rome, Italy)
Villa Farnesina (Rome, Italy)
Villa Giulia (Rome, Italy)
Villa Ludovisi (Rome, Italy)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA, USA)
Vlasto Collection (Athens, Greece)
Von Wagner Museum (Wurzburg, Germany)
Wadsworth Athenaeum (Hartford, CT, USA)
Wallace Collection (London, England)
Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, USA)
Windsor Castle (England)
Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, USA)

Site/Origin

Specifies the original location or creation point of a work of art.  This is also used for works that are “in situ,” such as frescoes or mosaics that are part of an archeological site or paintings that are part of the decorative program of a room in a palace.

Location is given from general to specific.  Country is mentioned first, followed by city, followed by the name of the site/building.   Ex.: Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina

Sometimes you will have an object that was created in one place but found in another.  Site/origin has incorporated the old “findspot” field.  You may specify the findspot after the site/origin. For example, for an Attic vase found in an Etruscan tomb, the site/origin would read:
Greece, Athens; Found Italy, Civitavecchia

Source: [not in ISIS]

The source field is no longer being actively used.

Additional Information

This field, which used to be called “addenda,” contains any miscellaneous information about the object, such as museum inventory numbers, notes about patronage or past ownership of the object, or related images in the database.

Local number

The nucleus of the Classics Department’s image collection comes from a slide collection kept in the Seminar room.  Each slide has its own “local number,” which consists of two parts separated by a period.  For example, Image 174\064 in the database has a local number, 8A.78.

Since many new images have been added to the database, not all records will have a local number.

Copyright [Copyright holder]

This field contains the name of the owner of the copyright of the object’s image, if known. In many cases, this will be a museum, or a Classics faculty member who has taken their own photographs of archeological sites or objects in museums. 

If an image has been scanned from a book, the citation may be entered in this field.

Caprina Number [File Number]

The Caprina number is the same as the file number on ISIS.  It consists of two parts: a three-digit directory number, followed by a three-digit image number, separated by a backslash. Ex: 174\064.

Caprina directory numbers 168-179 and 182-183 correspond to individual CDs containing images in the Classics’ collection that were scanned from existing slides.  Directory number 184 corresponds with a number of zip disks containing images that Liz Tobey scanned and added to the database.

If you are adding new records to ISIS, you should request a new directory number from Catherine Hays in the Electronic Media Center (chays@deans.umd.edu).

Image File Name [not used on ISIS]

This field is used to specify the file name of any image that, due to copyright restrictions, has not been posted online. 

These images are kept in a folder called “Lillian’s Images” within the slidecat folder on the desktop.

Updates [Cataloger/Catalog date]

This specifies the person who created the record.  All records created prior to the exporting of the database to ISIS have the designation “C. Welser/E.Tobey, pre-2003.” 

When new records are entered on ISIS, it will be important to include the cataloger’s name to keep track of who entered the record.

Permission [not used on ISIS]

This field has become obsolete.  Permission information goes into the Copyright field.

Associated events

This field is used for particular historical events that may be associated with an image, such as the Trojan War.

The field may also be used to designate a particular festival depticted in an image.

In ISIS, this field will also be used to designate associated classical and literary texts, such as Virgil’s “Aeneid” and Homer’s “Odyssey.”

Function

Function refers to how an object may have been used.  For example, the function of a sarcophagus might be catalogued as “funerary.”

Text [Inscriptions/Text]

This field refers to any inscriptions or words found or inscribed on an object.

This field was erroneously used to enter the titles of classical or literary texts associated with an image.  This information from now on should be entered in “Associated Events.”