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Classification System

Warburg Institute Library Research Guide to the Classification System

Classmark K Ancient Art & Archaeology

  1st floor Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
KDD African, Oceanian, American Art       
KDK Prehistoric Art      
Asian Art Basement Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
KGI General      
KGF Ancient East      
KGL Egypt      
KGN Assyria and Babylon      
400– Urartu      
KGM Palestine      
KGK  Syria & Asia Minor      
KGE Persia      
KGA Islam General      
70– Architecture      
125– Numismatics      
135– Monuments      
690– Painting      
720– Miniature Painting      
1200– Book Binding      
1500– Islam. Applied Arts      
2000– Pottery      
2300– Epigraphy      
2500– Textiles & Carpets      
KGD India. General      
210– Pre– History      
240– Iconography      
260– Architecture      
700– Numismatics      
750– Sculpture      
2000– Foreign Influences      
5100– Painting      
6050– Applied Arts      
KGB South East Asia      
KGG Central Asia      
KGC Far East      
  Basement Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
Classical Archaeology      
KFH Literary Sources      
KFI  Methods of Archaeology      
120– Festschriften & Collected Essays      
  Basement Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
KPK Greece      
250– Greek Islands      
335– Asia      
500– Africa      
560– Spain      
600– Italy General      
650– Rome      
675– Northern Italy      
800– Central Italy      
860– Southern Italy      
1100– Sicily      
KPH Museums. Greece      
73– Near East      
105– Italy      
312– Spain      
335– France      
390– Switzerland      
427– Austria, Hungary      
440– Germany      
490– Belgium, Holland      
525– Scandinavia      
540– Poland, Russia      
575– Great Britain      
670– United States      
900– Australia      
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KOK 1– General   38–41 LS 5-6
200– Gods      
260– Bacchus      
325– Death & Underworld      
335– Demigods & Heroes      
KOC 1– Human Figure      
200– Portraits      
KOE Art & Poetry      
Numismatics Basement Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
KFF  General   38–41 LS 7
290– Greek Coins     
380– Roman Coins     
600– Engraved Stones     
Greek Art Basement Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
KKP Creto– Mycenean Art   42-45 LS 8
KKF General   42-45 LS 8
KKI Architecture   42-45 LS 8
KKO Sculpture   42-45 LS 8
675– Applied Arts
KKN Painting   42-45 LS 9
150– Vase– Painting   46-49
Roman Art, Migration Period Basement Bay Locations Large Size Bay Locations
KNP Etruscan. General   46-49 LS 9
190– Sculpture      
229– Painting      
235– Applied Arts      
KNF Roman Art. General   50-53 LS 9
KNI Architecture   50-53 LS 9
KNO Sculpture   50-53 LS 9-10
450– Applied Arts
KNN Mosaics & Painting   50-53 LS 10-11
KNG Provinces. General   54-57 LS 11-12
195– Africa      
305– Great Britain      
410– Spain      
450– France      
550– Belgium      
575– Holland      
600– Germany      
675– Switzerland      
705– Danube Valley; Balkans      
720– Provinces. Austria   58-61  
748– Czechoslovakia      
750– Hungary      
758– Poland      
760– Rumania      
780– Yugoslavia      
787– Albania      
790– Bulgaria      
900– South Russia; Scythian Art      
KEF Migration Period   60-61 LS 12