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Change log: September 2023

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The Pleiades gazetteer change log for September 2023 has been posted: 29 new and 506 updated place resources. Work by Erin Walcek Averett, Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Stephan Maurer, Colin McCaffrey, Gabriel McKee, David Meadows, John Muccigrosso, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Change log: September 2023

September 2023: https://atlantides.org/changelogs/2023/09/.

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September change log repeated below for convenience:

New Place Resources

  • The ancient acropolis of Lilaia is reused in the thirteenth century to build Frankish fortifications, including an extant tower.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The ancient theater of Carthaea.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The probable sanctuary of Apollo Aegileos on the modern Aegean island of Antikythera is attested by the presence of a squared marble platform and various artifacts, including sculptural remains.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Tom Elliott
  • The so-called Antikythera shipwreck dates to the second quarter of the first century BCE. Sponge divers discovered the shipwreck near Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. The wreck has produced numerous artifacts, including an object known commonly as the Antikythera mechanism.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
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  • The archaic period city walls and gate of Phocaea excavated under the Maltepe tumulus.
    Creators: Noah Kaye
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  • A hilltop archaeological site in southeastern Albania, presently named after the adjacent modern village, that lies less than 2km northeast of modern Korça. Its precise nature is not yet known, but earlier suggestions that it was a burial mound have been refuted by the discovery of significant stone walls and small finds datable to the Iron Age and possibly the Hellenistic period.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Tumulus located approximately 13km southeast of Parion. The tomb contained two burials dated to 350-300 BCE.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • A section of the ancient city wall of Salamis, dating to the fourth century BCE, has been excavated protruding from the north shore of Ampelaki Bay, where it was partly built into an early modern jettty.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A large (300 acres), multiperiod (Old Kingdom through late Roman) cemetery located just beyond the arable land of the eastern Fayoum in Egypt. It likely served the nearby ancient settlements of Tanis, Philadelphia, and Selia.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A large and minimally excavated site that lies under the modern Aquisgrana industrial park in the eastern part of the city of La Carolina in Spain's Jaén province. Evidence indicates a temporal span for the site from at least the first century BCE to the late first century CE. The site may have served as a central foundry for metallic ore extracted from mines in and around La Carolina and Cerro del Plomo.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Hasanaliler Church is a 6th-century Byzantine church.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Doric-order temple, hexastyle in antis (23.20x11.10 m). The building utilizes stone from both Aegina and Paros.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • An ancient temple complex of the Khmer Empire, Koh Ker is also known as Lingapura or Chok Gargyar. The site is located in the Srayong commune of Preah, Vihear province's Kulen district. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in September 2023 and covers some 1,187 ha.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Roman-style settlement at modern El Burgo de Ebro, located on the south bank of the Ebro rivier, southeast of Zaragoza, Spain. The settlement appears to have been founded in the second century BCE and permanently destroyed in the first century, likely during the Sertorian War (82-72 BCE).
    Creators: John Muccigrosso; Tom Elliott; David Meadows
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  • District in Hattusa located northwest of Büyükkale, enclosed by the oldest wall of the city, the Poternenmauer, and including the structure known in modern times as Temple I.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • Through a series of survey and rescue excavations, the modern lignite mines just west of modern Megalopolis (and southwest of the ancient site of Megalopolis) in the Peloponnese have produced important evidence for ice age activity, especially at (but not limited to) a Lower Paeleolithic site known as Marathoussa 1.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The Roman amphitheater of Meninx.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Mycenaean necropolis with elaborate chamber tombs located north of modern Elateia, Phthiotida, Greece.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The bridge known as the Ponte del Viceré de Ribera crosses the Fosso di Sant'Andrea on the line of the Via Appia. The viceroy of Naples, one Parefàn de Ribera, renovated the bridge in 1568. During the Second World War, the bridge was bombed and was eventually restored in 2005.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A cenotaph monument in western Attica praised by Pausanias, the Pythionike monument was located along the Sacred Way linking Athens and Eleusis. Stewart (2012) speculates whether Sulla could have plundered statuary from the monument when he marched on Athens.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The site of a Roman fort and an adjacent settlement is located on a terrace south of the River Ure to the west of Boroughbridge. The Roman fort was identified via geophysical survey and test excavations.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Late-roman fortifications at Le Mans (France).
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A Doric-order temple with a hexastyle in antis plan measuring 31.15x16.05 m. According to Mazarakis-Ainian, the cella is divided into two parts by means of an axial colonnade. The altar stood at the east front of the temple.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A pyramid, originally approximately 23m in height, built by the fourth dynasty pharaoh Snefru. The function of the pyramid, which seems to have lacked an interior chamber, is uncertain.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A 4th century BCE tholos tomb, embedded in a tumulus known as Chetinyova Mogila (Chetinyova Mound), located northwest of the modern Bulgarian village of Starosel.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A temple of the Doric order that was built at Akragas ca. 450 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Thermi, Lesbos, was a Bronze Age port-cum-settlement that flourished during the third millennium BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Trestina, located in the Val di Chiana of Umbria, was the site of the accidental discovery in 1878 of important Orientalizing-period bronzes.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Ruins of a villa rustica, located south of modern Brombach in Baden-Württemberg.
    Creators: Stephan Maurer
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

Modified Place Resources