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Last Week in Pleiades (12-19 December 2022)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new place resources and approved updates to 97 existing place resources.
Last Week in Pleiades (12-19 December 2022)

New Place Resources

  • A Roman settlement with public baths that was occupied from the later republican period until the fifth or sixth century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A castle of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries located in Celano, the Province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo), Italy.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Formina Roman aqueduct provided water to the ancient city of Narnia. It originally dates to the first century CE. After antiquity, the first notice of it is recorded in 1371.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Palace of Sennacherib (South-Palace Palace) at Nineveh remained in use until the Assyrian capital was captured, looted, and destroyed in 612 BC. Numerous tablets discovered in Rooms XL and XLI, as well as in some of the adjoining rooms, nineteenth-century British excavators unearthed the remains of a library, including many clay tablets inscribed with literary texts. During the reign of Ashurbanipal (r. 668–ca. 631 BC), the last great king of Assyria, the tablets found in this archive repository were probably part of his tablet collection.
    Creators: Jamie Novotny; Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • In the Palace of Sennacherib (South-West Palace) at Nineveh, in Room LXI, nineteenth-century British excavators discovered about 450 clay bullae. Most of these had seal impressions on one side and indications on their backsides that they were fastened with rope to perishable materials (for example, papyrus and leather). These bullae are probably the remains of an archive of Aramaic documents.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny
  • In the Palace of Ashurbanipal (North Palace), in Room C, nineteenth-century British excavators unearthed the remains of an archive of clay tablets. This find yielded records for military officers and possibly literary texts (although this has yet to be conclusively proven).
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny
  • In the Palace of Ashurbanipal (North Palace), in the southwest corner nineteenth-century British excavators unearthed the remains of a library, including many clay tablets inscribed with literary texts. During the reign of Ashurbanipal (r. 668–ca. 631 BC), the last great king of Assyria, the tablets found in this archive repository were probably part of his tablet collection. Because these tablets were excavated very close to the Nabû temple (Ezida), which also had its own archival repository, some of the tablets thought to have come from the so-called “Library of Ashurbanipal” might have actually belonged to the neighboring Nabû temple. Today, the North Palace library material is not clearly differentiated from that of Ezida, due to the fact that the excavators did not provide detailed information about the exact findspots of the tablets.
    Creators: Jamie Novotny; Thomas Seidler
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  • A Thracian tumulus located near Shipka, Bulgaria, the so-called Ostrusha mound dates to the middle of the fourth century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Poggibonsi is an ancient and medieval center in the province of Siena on the Elsa river. The city sits along the Via Francigena.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Ryan Horne; Tom Elliott
  • The hill of Serra del Cedro in Basilicata (858 meters above sea level) is occupied already in the archaic period. By the fourth century BCE the settlement covers some 30 ha.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Cemetery site in Khakassia containing numerous burials associated with the Karasuk Culture (14th-8th centuries BCE). The site was inundated following the construction of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Plant.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The tomb of the Nasonii family is an ancient Roman hypogeum-type tomb along the Via Flaminia in Grottarossa in the northern outskirts of Rome. The tomb was exposed during road works in 1674.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A necropolis at the thirteenth kilometer of the Via Aurelia excavated between 2007 and 2011. A total of 332 tombs were identified at the site.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Villa di Rufione is a villa rustica located along the via Flaminia Vetus, between the hamlets of Montecchio and Bastardo in località Toccioli. The site begins its life in the late republican period and continues in use until the fourth century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modified Place Resources