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Changelog: December 2023

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The Pleiades gazetteer change log for December 2023 has been posted: 35 new and 585 updated place resources, reflecting work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Denitsa Dzhigova, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, John Muccigrosso, Rune Rattenborg, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Richard Talbert.
Changelog: December 2023

December 2023: https://atlantides.org/changelogs/2023/12/.

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The December change log is repeated below for convenience:

New Place Resources

  • Find place for cuneiform brick inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The archaeological sites at Amnya, located in a bend of the homonymous river in Western Siberia, have been demonstrated to be perhaps among the earliest instances of fortified human settlement ca. 6000 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Amnya River (Russian: Амня) is a left tributary of the Kasym in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug/Ugra of Western Siberia. It flows predominantly northward through the West Siberian Plain and joins the Kasym about 15 km east of Beloyarsky. The river flows for some 374 km from its source to the point of confluence and drains an area of 7210 km².
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Avatha (al-Bakhra') is the site of a Late Roman and early Islamic fort that is located south of Palmyra. The fort was originally a Tetrarchic establishment that housed an auxiliary cavalry unit. The fort was modified and expanded during the Umayyad period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Roman baths at Tharros known as the "Baths of the Old Convent".
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Roman station located along the road from Nisibis to Thelser that is attested on the Peutinger Map.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Richard Talbert
  • An ancient sanctuary of the Aventine Hill in Rome
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Cissbury Ring is an Iron Age hillfort located north of Worthing in West Sussex, England, and is the second largest hillfort in England. The hillfort, surrounded by earthworks, covers about 24 ha. It was likely abandoned by 50 CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Phoenician port of southeastern Sardinia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Deir Qeruh is a Byzantine-period village located in the Golan Heights within the Israeli national park of the Gamla nature reserve. The village was founded in the fourth century CE, and a church and monastery followed in the sixth century. The village was abandoned following the Arab conquest.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The findspot for a stone with an Urartian inscription, now unlocated (Van).
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The House of Actius Anicetus (I.3.23) at Pompeii is best known as the site where the fresco painting depicting the battle between the Nucerians and the Pompeians in the amphitheater of Pompeii was discovered.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Jebel Moya is an archaeological site located in the southern part of the Gezira Plain in Sudan. The 25-acre site was the locus of the largest-known pastoralist necropolis in Africa, with more than 3,000 burials dating between 5000 BCE and 500 CE. Sir Henry Wellcome first excavated the site from 1911 to 1914.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The findspot for an Urartian stele (Stele of Karagündüz).
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • One of the two known Genovese fortresses on Andros.
    Creators: Catherine Bouras
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • Modern settlement and harbour on the North side of the island of Milos, with archaeological remains of the Hellenistic and Roman settlement.
    Creators: Catherine Bouras
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The beginnings of the early Christian monastery of Saint Elian at Al-Qaryatayn, Syria, are linked with the saint Julian of Emesa. The Medieval iteration of the monastery was badly damaged - or perhaps nearly destroyed - by Islamic State terrorists in 2015.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A ruined monopteral nuraghe located in the comune of Serrenti, Sardinia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A bilobate nuraghe located to the east of Sarroch, Sardinia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The odeion, sometimes also described as a theater, at Canatha is situated on the slopes of the Wadi Qanawat. The structure is dated perhaps to the third century CE and likely had a cult-related function.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Poggio Evangelista is a hill located near Latera in the province of Viterbo, Italy. On the highest part of the hill, Bronze Age pottery evidence provides evidence for a naturally defended settlement.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Roman fort of Qreiye-Ayyash was established by the early third century CE and was abandoned by the mid-third century CE. It is situated on the outskirts of the modern village of Ayyash in Syria. It measures 220 x 220 m. Poidebard discovered the site in 1929. In the twenty-first century, the site has been the subject of several campaigns of geophysical prospection.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • FInd place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The Stoa Basileios or Royal Stoa was an important Doric-order stoa originating in the sixth century BCE and located at the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora. It was the administrative seat of the magistrate known as the archon basileus ("king archon").
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The findspot for a cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • The remains of the Sanctuary of Sol Indiges are located near Pomezia, Italy. The original phase of the sanctuary dates to the last quarter of the sixth century BCE, with subsequent rebuilding in the late fourth century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • An Iron Age oppidum in Cantabria.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The find spot for a cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • A tetrastyle temple in the Corinthian order sacred to Zeus Megistos was built at Canatha by the first century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The so-called "Tholos" located on the west side of the Athenian Agora was a circular civic building that took the place of archaic-period buildings associated with the Peisistratid tyrants. The Classical tholos served as a civic dining hall for the prytany council.
    Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova; Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling

Modified Place Resources