| ABV | John Davidson Beazley, Attic black-figure vase-painters (Oxford 1956). |
| Add.[1] (1982) | Lucilla Burn and Ruth Glynn, Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford, 1982). |
| Add.[2] (1989) | Thomas H. Carpenter, Beazley Addenda (2nd edn., incorporating 1st edn. by Lucilla Burn and Ruth Glynn, 1982; Oxford 1989). |
| ARV[1] (1942) | John Davidson Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 3 vols., new edn. (Oxford 1942). |
| ARV[2] (1963) | John Davidson Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 3 vols., 2nd edn. (Oxford 1963). |
| AttScr (1990) | Henry Immerwahr, Attic Script: a survey (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford 1990). |
| AV (1925) | John Davidson Beazley, Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925). |
| BADB | Beazley Archive Database |
| Berlin App. | Gerhard’s Apparatus of drawings, in the Berlin Museum. (ARV[2], liii) |
| BM Cat. B | H. B. Walters, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, ii: Black-figured Vases (London, 1893) |
| BM Cat. E | C. H. Smith, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, iii: Vases of the Finest Period (London, 1896) |
| BM Cat. F | H. B. Walters, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, iv: Vases of the Latest Period (London, 1896) |
| CAH | Cambridge Ancient History |
| CB i–iii | L.D. Caskey and J.D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 3 vols. and pls. (Boston, 1931, 1954, 1963). |
| CEG | P. A. Hansen (ed.), Carmina epigraphica graeca saeculorum VIII–V a. Chr. n. (Berlin–New York, 1983), Carmina epigraphica graeca saeculi IV a.Chr. n. (Berlin–New York, 1989) |
| CF | J.D. Beazley, Campana Fragments in Florence (1933). |
| CIA | Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, s. IG |
| CIE | Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum |
| CIG | A. Boeckh et al. (eds.), Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, i (1828), ii (1843), iii (1853), iv (1855–77) (Berlin). |
| CII | Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus Inscriptionum Italicarum (Turin, 1867) |
| CVA | Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum |
| DGE | E. Schwyzer (ed.), Dialectorum graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora (Leipzig, 1923) |
| Dev.[1] (1951) | J.D. Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-figure (Berkeley, 1951). |
| Dev.[2] (1986) | J.D. Beazley, The Development of Attic Black-figure (2nd edn., Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1986) |
| EAA | Enciclopedia dell’arte antica, i (1958), ii (1959), iii (1960), iv (1961), v (1963), vi (1965), vii (1966), suppl. (1970), indexes and atlases (1973ff.) (Rome) |
| FR i–iii | A. Furtwängler, K. Reichhold, et al., Griechische Vasenmalerei, 3 vols. and pls. (Munich, 1904, 1909, 1932) |
| ICS | O. Masson, Les inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques (Paris, 1961; 2nd edn. 1983) |
| IG | Inscriptiones Graecae |
| LGPN | Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (Oxford) |
| LIMC | Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zürich/München 1981–99) |
| LSAG | Lilian H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (Oxford monographs on classical archaeology; 1st edn., Oxford 1961; rev. edn. with a supplement by A.W. Johnston, Oxford 1990). |
| PA | J. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1901–3). |
| Para. | John Davidson Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters (2nd edn.; Oxford 1971). |
| SEG | Supplementum epigraphicum graecum |
| SGDI | H. Collitz and F. Bechtel (eds.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, i (1884), ii (1899), iii/1 (1899), iii/2 (1905), iv (1886–1915) (Göttingen). |
| VA | J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figured Vases in American Museums (...., 1918; reprint Rome, 1967). |
| V.Pol. | J.D. Beazley, Greek Vases in Poland (Oxford, 1928). |