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This Website provides the documentation to the SPARQL-Query Editor for the Samian Research Database.

The documentation features prefixes, Data & Class maps, example queries as well as insight into the CSV-Data.

As a result of a cooperation agreement between the universities of Reading and Leeds together with the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, the life-long study made by Brian Hartley and Brenda Dickinson of the stamps and signatures on samian became available as a database. They were originally published as a series of books (Institute of Classical Studies, London, from 2008 onwards).

The Samian Research Database comprises a suite of databases concerned with samian ware. Their aim is to standardize the recording and publishing of samian ware in such a way that the data is available both for comparative identification, and more significantly for scientific analysis using statistical and mapping tools. All have their individual search masks appropriate to the questions likely to require resolution. The databases comprise the following:

• Names on Terra Sigillata / Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum (merged into one database)
• Name marked decorated vessels
• Ovolo Vessels

More information also on Wikipedia.

The documentation features prefixes, Data & Class maps, example queries as well as insight into the CSV-Data.

To view the documentation click here.