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Change log: August 2023

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The Pleiades gazetteer change log for August 2023 has been posted: 39 new and 533 updated places. Work by: Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anne Chen, Niels Christoffersen, Peter Cobb, Tom Elliott, Jonathan Fu, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Thomas Landvatter, Ingrid Luo, Gabriel McKee, Gabriel Moss, R. Scott Smith, Gifford Quinn, Richard Talbert, and Scott Vanderbilt.
Change log: August 2023

August 2023: https://atlantides.org/changelogs/2023/08/.

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August change log repeated below for convenience:

New Place Resources

  • A place in Africa Proconsularis that is included on the Peutinger map.
    Creators: Richard Talbert
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The historic settlement of Amorgos on the Aegean island of the same name is centered around a thirteenth-century Venetian fortress.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Catherine Bouras
  • The Roman Amphitheater of Sbeitla.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Roman signal station of the "Gask ridge" type was located 1.5 miles southeast of Appleby-in-Westmorland.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A mining landscape and processing site (gold and tin) at modern As Muradellas in the Spanish municipality of Baltar (Ourense province) that may have had two periods of working, first during the early Roman empire and again in the 12th-13th centuries.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Buddhist temple at Angkor, located approximately 20 km northeast of the main temple complex. Dedicated to Shiva, the temple was constructed during the 10th century CE during the reigns of Rajendravarman II and Jayavarman V.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • The Castle of Irulegi is a medieval castle located atop the eponymous mountain, located in the Sierra de Aranguren in the Spanish municipality of Laquidáin. In 1494, Catherine of Navarre ordered the demolition of the castle.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Two Roman forts and two Roman camps at St Andrew's Hill, Cullompton, Devon, England.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The fortification wall of the Late Roman fortified palace compound at Gamzigrad-Romuliana, commissioned by Emperor Caius Valerius Galerius Maximianus, in the late third and early fourth centuries.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A fundus located near Marruvium (San Benedetto dei Marsi).
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A place located in north-eastern Armenia, some 20 Roman miles from Artaxata, on the main road to Harmastica.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The fort at Hembury, Devon, is a multi-period site, ranging in date and usage from a Neolithic enclosure to an Iron Age hillfort to a Claudian outpost near the line of the Fosse Way.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • At Jebel Oust [Jbel al Wost] (Tunisia) are the remains of a large Roman bathing complex with a number of built cisterns.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Richard Talbert
  • Kinvaston Fort, a Roman vexillation fort located near the point where the Watling Street crossed the River Penk. The fort was discovered via air photos in 1946.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • An early Christian basilica was excavated at Kursi, near the Sea of Galilee in the Golan Heights.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Remains of a Romano-British corridor villa at Little Milton, some 8 miles south-east of Oxford, observed via cropmarks.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A complex quarry landscape near Karystos, heavily exploited especially in Roman times, for highly prized Cipollino Verde (marmor Carystium).
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • An extensive archaic necropolis located on the eastern edge of modern Mavişehir in Turkey, which was associated with ancient Panormos, the port of Didyma.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A toponym (in the ablative: "Monte") attested in Peutinger Map routes between Sitifis and Cuicul (and possibly between Ad Olivam and Ruzai). It is perhaps to be identified with the ancient site of Mopht(i?), modern El-Kasr in Algeria's Beni Fouda municipality (Sétif Province), but if so presents problems of interpretation as the Peutinger Map separately treats a "Mopti Municipium". See further the "details" section of this resource.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The Iron Age Hillfort at Norton Camp is located near Taunton. It covers roughly 13 acres.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A place in Africa Proconsularis included on the Peutinger map.
    Creators: Richard Talbert
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A prehistoric settlement at the south-east end of the present-day island of Therasia, inhabited from the early Bronze Age through the end of the Middle Cycladic period.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The Iron Age settlement at Poblado de Irulegui is noted as the findspot of the so-called "Hand of Irulegi", a bronze, hand-shaped artifact dated ca. 80 to 72 BCE. This object carries an important inscription written in the Northeastern Iberian script.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Port antique de Marseille is the oldest exposed portion of the city's ancient port, located in the Jardin des Vestiges archaeological park and containing remains from the 6th c. BCE through the 4th c. CE.
    Creators: Gifford Quinn; Niels Christoffersen
    Contributors: Thomas Landvatter
  • Site of a Roman temple and possible small town near the confluence of the rivers Soar and Trent near Ratclifffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire. Findspot of at least three curse tablets (defixiones).
    Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The ancient Roman Theater at Sepphoris.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Ruglata was an ancient place in Numidia (the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis). It is included as a name on the Tabula Peutingeriana but it has no symbol.
    Creators: Richard Talbert
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • A Roman commercial port near the modern French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is attested by over forty Roman-era shipwrecks discovered in the area since the 1990s, most carrying cargoes of metal. The excavators posit in Roman times a significantly different coastline (generally further south) and an old mouth of the Rhone (Ancien Rhône de Saint-Ferréol), located to the east of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (Long 2011, Figure 1).
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The "Shamiram canal", also referred to as the "Semiramis canal", is located to the east of Van, Turkey, and runs for some 45 miles to Lake Van. On the basis of epigraphic evidence, its original construction is attributed to King Menua of Urartu.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • An extensive Roman necropolis, with burials stretching back to at least the Hellenistic age, lies south and southwest of the so-called "Red Hall basilica" beneath the modern Turabey Mahallesi neighborhood of Bergama, Turkey.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • An auxiliary fort located just to the north of Watling Street.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Roman fort located at Bolham Hill, Tiverton, Mid Devon, England. A Roman auxiliary fort of the Neronian period has been identified here.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A place in the Caucasus that is included on the Peutinger map.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Roman bridge on the Rio Murtazzolu near Birori, Sardinia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Architectural remains consistent with a Roman-era villa maritima have been identified on both the north and south sides of a small bay at modern Valbandon in Croatia. Originally thought to represent a single establishment that wrapped the entire bay, more recent interpretations would see two separate architectural complexes.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Vicus Valeriani is attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana as Vico Valeriani.
    Creators: Richard Talbert
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The so-called Villa di Grotte di Piastra, ruins of a Roman villa at Castelporziano.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Roman auxiliary fort located near Nunnington Park, Wiveliscombe.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Mamluk arched bridge dating to the 1270s crosses the river Nahal Sorek near modern Yibna, Israel.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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