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21 November 2024

Pleiades Export Updates 2024-11-21:

1 new and 60 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

49e3a2b6 - updated legacy csv
7cf63b91 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
f9893587 - updated gis package
9d928df3 - updated data quality
4a9d6ab7 - updated bibliography
b7923270 - updated indexes
7e1ed194 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

aeab1695 - updated geojson and names index

21 November 2024

Updated Pleiades Sidebar data:

There are 28,342 Pleiades matches across all 6 datasets (cflago, edhgeo, itinere, manto, nomisma, wikidata). 5,634 of these are reciprocated by Pleiades. 19,229 unique Pleiades places are referenced.

github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da

21 November 2024

Pleiades < -- > Wikidata updates:

12154 Wikidata entities include a Pleiades ID property and 4769 Pleiades entities include a Wikidata ID property. Of these, 4765 are mutual (bidirectional). 6341 Pleiades resources to which Wikidata links can be added after they are checked. 4 Wikidata items to which Pleiades IDs can be added after they are checked. 90 Wikidata items that each link to more than one Pleiades ID.

github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

20 November 2024

Export Updates 2024-11-20:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

7 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

89883b44 - updated legacy csv
e51e26ea - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
6fa8888d - updated gis package
473cf3ab - updated data quality
364cbbc6 - updated bibliography
3ec8248d - updated indexes
935522f2 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

no change

20 November 2024

Updated Pleiades Sidebar data:

There are 28,331 Pleiades matches across all 6 datasets (cflago, edhgeo, itinere, manto, nomisma, wikidata). 5,582 of these are reciprocated by Pleiades. 19,219 unique Pleiades places are referenced.

New data from itinere, nomisma, and wikidata were incorporated.

github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da

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Last Week in Pleiades (10-17 June 2024)

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Last week, the editorial college published 30 new and 227 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Ella Arnold, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Amelia Grissom, Noah Kaye, Thomas Landvatter, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, and Richard Talbert.
Last Week in Pleiades (10-17 June 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map covers Europe as far north as Scotland, northern Africa (including the Red Sea), and southwest Asia.

New Place Resources

  • The Abba Garima Monastery is an Ethiopian Orthodox church founded in the sixth century CE by Abba Garima, one of the so-called Nine Saints. It is located east of Adwa, in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A road station in Pontus along the Roman road from Zela to Neokaisareia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Richard Talbert
    Contributors:
  • An ancient, now-vanished, branch of the Nile River. Geophysical research has demonstrated that the Ahramat Branch, no longer visible to the naked eye, was located west of the main Nile River channel and flowed from south of Lisht to the area of the Giza Plateau area. This channel would have bordered on the complexes of more than 30 ancient pyramids ranging in date from the Old Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period (2686−1649 BCE).
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Aristomachou Kleros, an agricultural district, was located in the Herakleopolites Nomos of ancient Egypt.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A sanctuary to the west of the Acropolis of Athens, which was the clubhouse for a private religious association called the Iobakchoi, in the 2nd century AD.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • An inlet of the Irish Sea into which the river Lagan (ancient Logia) flows.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • An ancient city founded by Egyptian pharaohs ca. 1450 BCE, Doukki Gel succeeds the earlier site of Kerma.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Burial site in North Ossetia–Alania containing 58 burials associated with the Koban culture (8th-7th centuries BCE), as well as 26 medieval burials (14th century CE).
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The remains of an ancient village, perhaps linked to ancient Berenice Troglodytica.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Jazīrat Sāy, an island in the Nile River located in Sudan.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • An extensive necropolis of the Kerma culture located on Sai Island.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The archaeological site of Keskese is located approximately 8 km north of Matara. It is the site of numerous stelai dating ca. 500 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The so-called Kiosk of Qertassi is an unfinished Roman kiosk that may date to the reign of Trajan. Originally located at Qertassi, the remains of the temple were relocated to New Kalabsha in Southern Egypt as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia in the twentieth century.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The ruined city of Koumbi Saleh in south-east Mauritania may have been the capital of the Ghana Empire.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • An Early Christian basilica and martyrium at Halmyris.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Matara, in Eritrea, is an archaeological site located along the coast road to Adulis and dating to pre-Aksumite or early Aksumite times. It is possibly to be identified as the Koloe mentioned in a Roman imperial source.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; D.T. Potts; R. Talbert
  • Meinarti Island is located in the Nile River north of the Second Cataract. It lies just upstream of the Sudanese border town of Wadi Halfa.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A bridge across the Minho River at Lugo with Roman origins. Heavily restored in modern times, the bridge now serves as a pedestrian walkway.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Roman-era shipwreck near Cape Glavat on the island of Mljet/Milete.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • Sabu-Jaddi is the site of multi-period Nubian rock art and is located along the Nile River downstream of the third cataract region on the east bank of the Nile. These rock drawings are found on sandstone cliffs between the Sudanese villages of Sabu and Jaddi.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Pre-Aksumite settlement of Sembel, located near Asmara in Ethiopia, dates ca. 800 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A New Kingdom Egyptian town on the west bank of the Nile opposite Delgo, Sudan.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • An ancient settlement mound located 45 kilometers north of Şanlıurfa, Turkey, Titris Hoyuk lies near the Euphrates River valley. There were several phases of occupation in the third and second millennia BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Tower of Chrysokamaro Áyios Nikólaos is a small, fortified complex of Byzantine date located near the village Agios Nikolaos in Chalkidiki, at the beach of Trani Ammouda.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The ancient monument referred to as "Trajan's Kiosk" or the "Pharaoh's Bed" is an incomplete hypaethral temple that dates to the second century CE. The monument is currently located on Agilkia Island although it was originally built on the island of Philae. It was relocated in the 1960s as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Tumba de Servilia was constructed as a mausoleum for the Servilii family in the 1st century CE and is part of the Roman Necropolis of Carmo in Sevilla, Spain.
    Creators: Amelia Grissom; Ella Arnold
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Thomas Landvatter
  • An archaeological site in northern Sudan that includes Tombos Island and the adjacent riverbank. The site is located at the Third Cataract of the Nile River and was occupied form the mid-18th Dynasty of Egypt and through the 25th Dynasty.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Tylihul Estuary, located in Odesa Oblast in the south of Ukraine, lies on the northwest coast of the Black Sea. It receives the waters of the Tylihul River.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Ancient Yeha was located in what is now the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Yeha was likely a capital of the pre-Aksumite kingdom of D'mt. The Cultural Heritage of Yeha has been submitted for consideration to UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Yeha Temple is alleged to be among the oldest known extant structures in Ethiopia. It is executed in the Sabaean style and may date to the seventh century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

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