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Changelog: November 2023

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The Pleiades gazetteer change log for November 2023 has been posted: 51 new and 711 updated place resources, reflecting work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Mark Krier, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, D.T. Potts, Rune Rattenborg, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, R. Talbert, and Clifflena Tiah.
Changelog: November 2023

November 2023: https://atlantides.org/changelogs/2023/11/.

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The November change log is repeated below for convenience:

New Place Resources

  • Find place for cuneiform inscription, possibly ancient KI.KAL.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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  • The ancient theater of Maroneia was constructed in the Hellenistic period and later remodeled in the Roman period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Mycenaean tholos tomb located on the island of Mykonos.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • Walled city established as the capital city of the Khmer Empire during the late 12th century CE by Jayavarman VII. The city was abandoned by 1609.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Minoan tomb in the Mesara Plain in south-central Crete dated to the Early Minoan II period (ca. 2200-2050 BCE) and in use until the Middle Minoan III period (ca. 1750-1675 BCE).
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • Minoan tomb in the Mesara Plain in south-central Crete constructed during the Early Minoan I period (ca. 3100-2650 BCE) and expanded later in the Prepalatial and Protopalatial periods (through 1700 BCE).
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • The remains of a Roman arch at Syracuse dated soon after the deduction of the Roman colony of 21 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Romano-British villa with an octagonal bathhouse was documented at Bax Farm.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A temple in the Khmer capital of Angkor Thom, constructed in the late 12th or early 13th century CE.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • The remains of a Roman villa dating to the first century CE were discovered in the Botzdorf district of the city of Bornheim in the Rhein-Sieg district of Germany in 2002. It is also referred to as the "Villa Fortuna".
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Castello di San Pio delle Camere is first mentioned in a baronial list dating to 1173.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The church of San Paolo at Peltuinum likely dates to the seventh or eighth century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Evidence for human activity stretching from the Late Bronze Age to the sixth century A.D. was discovered in the cave of Boundoulaou in 1962.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Settlement in the Kouris Valley (southwestern Cyprus) dated to the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2500-1670 BCE).
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • A suite of Roman-period public baths in Lyon, France. The site is located in the rue des Farges on the slope of the Fourvière hill. The baths may have been linked to the cult of Apollo.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A karstic cave located near Porto Badisco in southern Apulia, Italy, the so-called Grotta dei Cervi was first discovered in 1970. The cave system, although not completely documented, contains a wealth of parietal art and pictograms dating to the late Neolithic and Eneolithic periods, ca. 6000 to 5000 years BP.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • In the Grotta delle Veneri, human occupation can be documented from the Mousterian Age until the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Grotta Romanelli (Lecce, Southern Italy) is a karstic cave in a coastal position that was occupied by humans beginning in the Middle Pleistocene period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The so-called "Headless Pyramid" located at Saqqara, also known as Lepsius XXIX, has an unclear identification. It is either connected to the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Menkauhor or pharaoh Merikare of the Tenth Dynasty.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Burial site in the modern town of Lapithos in northern Cyprus containing burials dated to the Geometric Period.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • A Byzantine church located within the fortified acropolis of Aperlae.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Hellenistic tower located at Agies Marines, Mykonos, Cyclades.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The ancient theater at Magarsus.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A substantial multiperiod sanctuary and associated complex on the Aegean island of Despotiko. Structures and finds date from the early Iron Age through Roman times, with some evidence for use or reuse into the Byzantine period.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The 6th Dynasty vizier Kagemni was buried in a large limestone mastaba at Saqqara. It Is the largest mastaba in the Teti cemetery. Its relief program includes well-preserved depictions of quotidian life in ancient Egypt.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Hilltop structure in the Mesara Plain in south-central Crete in use during throughout the Minoan period. Two Tholos tombs are located north of the building.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • An extensive ancient site in northwest Cyprus occupied from the Bronze Age until approximately 700 B.C.
    Creators: Clifflena Tiah
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The Roman Bridge of Chaves is also referred to as the Bridge of Trajan. It is dated to the late first or early second century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A seven-room building was brought to light by underwater archaeological research in Salamis. The architectural remains may be those of a hero shrine (heroön) connected with the Greek hero Ajax.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi in South Saqqara was built for the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A pyramid complex dating to the Fifth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and associated with the Egyptian pharaoh Sahure.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Pyramid of Teti is a smooth-sided pyramid situated in the pyramid field at Saqqara. Teti was the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A pre-Aksumite and Aksumite settlement located in what is now southern Eritrea, possibly to be identified as the Koloe mentioned in a Roman imperial source. Qohaito has been submitted by Eritrea for consideration as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Mark Krier; Sean Gillies; D.T. Potts; R. Talbert
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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  • A Roman auxiliary fort was identified via cropmarks in Kellington, Selby, England, United Kingdom.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Roman Bath House, Castleford, consists of the now-buried archaeological remains of a Roman military bath house that was built in the mid to late AD 80s. The site was excavated in 1978. The ancient bath was situated within the site of a former defensible annex that was constructed to the north of Castleford Roman fort.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Roman Theater of Side dates to the second century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Settlement in Luristan inhabited in the Second-First Millennia BCE.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • Stoidis, an island off the Indian coast mentioned by Pliny the Elder, was famous for it pearls.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Mound with remains from third millennium BCE.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • Khmer temple at Angkor constructed in 1186 CE under Jayavarman VII.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • A Roman temple at Side dating to the reign of Antoninus Pius.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Temple of Peltuinum is located on the forum square; its final iteration was that of a Corinthian hexastyle prostyle sanctuary of the Roman phase of the city when the shrine may have been dedicated to Apollo. The sanctuary also may have had a pre-Roman phase connected with a sacred spring.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Theater of ancient Sicyon dates to either the late fourth or early third century BC. It was restructured after 146 B.C.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Tom Elliott
  • The Roman theater of Peltuinum.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The ancient theater of Tios.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The ancient theater of Tarquimpol is located at the ancient settlement of Decempagi, present-day Tarquimpol, in the Moselle department. The theater was revealed by aerial photography in 1981; the theater measures approximately 117 meters in diameter and could accommodate up to 16,000 people.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The small Aegean island of Tsimintiri, located between Despotiko and Antiparos, has produced archaeological evidence for a large sanctuary and/or other public complex of archaic date, likely to be associated with the extensive archaic sanctuary of Mandra, located on the island of Despotiko, to which Tsimintiri was connected in antiquity.
    Creators: Catherine Bouras; Tom Elliott
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  • A small Cycladic island East of Despotiko, to which it seems to have been joined by a land bridge during the Archaic and Classical periods. Survey and excavation on the island have revealed evidence for an archaic period sanctuary and other large public buildings, as well as burials dating to the Early Cycladic, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.
    Creators: Catherine Bouras
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The Western gate and walls of Peltuinum.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A cave sanctuary, dedicated to the Nymphs, located on the east side of Mount Ossa's western "Psila Dendra" ridge north of the modern village of Spilia. Epigraphic and other evidence indicates the sanctuary was active from the Classical through Roman periods.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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Modified Place Resources