Abstract
SUMMARY Ancient sculpture is fragmentary. Some sculptures exist only in pieces; others have been split up; and many of the ancient world's most famous statues now survive only in multiple copies created later than the originals. This paper discusses the evolution of a Greek sculpture catalog on the Perseus Project and its recent redesign that brings the visitor's attention to these complexities of ancient art. A data field in our 4th Dimension database categorizes artworks according to their degree of entirety and automatically generates links to related objects. More than one relation for each object is permitted, which encourages users to investigate the whole range of possible connections. This multirelationa! database enables our next phase of catalog development, which will include the construction of series of copies, the contexluaiization of groups of sculptures, and the reconstruction of lost originals.
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