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04 September 2026

pleiades.datasets exports and derivatives will be delayed until we can troubleshoot and remedy a database inconsistency that is causing nightly exports to fail

03 September 2026

Export Updates 2026-09-03:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

8 updated places. 2 new and 23 updated linked data sidebars.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

06c5eca7 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
88366244 - updated gis package
58a15133 - updated data quality
7de91733 - updated bibliography
cd142476 - updated indexes
48ab4a4d - updated sidebar

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

eb5fa406 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

7609f3e2 - updated pleiades wikidata (query results from Wikidata were unavailable, but related changes in other datasets were captured)

02 September 2026

Export Updates 2026-09-02:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

33 updated places. 21 new and 88 updated linked data sidebars.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

e151fca9 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
37c51c28 - updated gis package
6a8854a0 - updated data quality
29334eb1 - updated bibliography
0dfc6a2e - updated indexes
d0464df2 - updated sidebar

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

b3583dfc - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

70cee3a2 - updated pleiades wikidata

02 September 2026

The offending missing index entry has been found and the overnight exports re-run. Derivative generation and pleiades.datasets packaging of exports have now been restarted.

02 September 2026

Daily exports and derivatives will be delayed while we investigate the cause of failure of the overnight core exports.

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 231 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (15-22 April 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from southern Europe and coastal north Africa in the northwest to the central Red Sea in the south and modern Tajikistan in the east.

New Place Resources

  • A well where Demeter lingered disguised as an old woman, after the abduction of Persephone. Pausanias locates it along a road leading from Eleusis to Megara. Its precise location has not been determined today.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Greta Hawes; R. Scott Smith; Tom Elliott
  • A building at the southeast end of the Acropolis of Athens, built perhaps in the 440s BC. Suggested identifications include the workshop for construction of the Parthenon, the hero shrine of Pandion (the eponymous hero of the tribe Pandionis), and the Chalkotheke. It is now covered by the Old Acropolis Museum.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • The Medieval castle of the Knights of St. John on Kos.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The so-called "Mura Messapiche" at Ugento.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios in Athens, which was closely associated with Theseus and served as a law court for cases of justifiable homicide. It is perhaps to be identified with the Classical Doric temple, whose remains are located south of the Olympieion.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • The Hellenistic- and Roman-period sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios is located northeast of the North Market at Miletos.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A Middle Helladic necropolis excavated to the west of Fanos, Phthiotis, Greece.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Tom Elliott
  • A late Iron Age IIa (ca. ninth century BCE) site located in the north-eastern part of the Jezreel Valley, Ḥorvat Tevet has produced archaeological evidence of a large, pillared building that has been interpreted as an administrative site belonging to early monarchic Israel.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • An archaeological site located 4.5km west southwest of modern Dolichi in Greece's Larisa regional unit (Thessaly). Here, a proto-byzantine walled settlement with three basilicas was built partly with spolia from a temple of Herakles and the ancient city of Doliche. On this basis, the excavators have argued for identification of the archaeology with the attested name; however, the lack so far of in-situ evidence predating the 6th century CE has led other scholars to continue to identify the original Classical-Roman polis of Doliche with the archaeological site at Sarandoporo.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A tall plinth next on the left side of the entrance to the Acropolis of Athens, which supported a bronze quadriga. It was probably originally erected for the Attalid king Eumenes II ca. 178 BC, possibly re-dedicated to Marcus Antonius in the 30s BC, and certainly to Agrippa 27-12 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • The Northwest Building on the Acropolis of Athens was built in the fifth century BC, probably in the 430s BC, north of the Propylaia. It may have been intended as a banqueting hall, but was never completed and remained an open-air courtyard, perhaps used for storage and staging purposes.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The remains of a tower at Psatha, perhaps the site of ancient Panormos.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Athens, located south of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, probably near Ioseph ton Rogon street, where many inscriptions related to the cult have been found.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • The sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia on the Acropolis of Athens was a branch of the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron in eastern Attica, perhaps established by Peisistratos or his sons in the second half of the sixth century BC, although the surviving structure probably dates from the 430s BC. It consisted of a Doric stoa with two wings surrounding a court, hosted a giant bronze statue of the Trojan horse by Strongylion, and was probably the site of the Arkteia ritual.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A small sanctuary of Athena Hygieia ("of health") on the Acropolis of Athens, consisting of a statue and an altar, next to the Propylaia. The sanctuary may have been established in 430/29 BC in response to the Periclean plague or have older roots on the Acropolis.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • The Sanctuary of Metaneira was located near Eleusis. Its precise location has not been determined.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Greta Hawes; R. Scott Smith; Tom Elliott
  • Located just east of modern Sarantaporo in the Elassona municipality (Larisa, Greece), this ancient settlement was excavated in the late 20th century. Its excavators proposed an identification with ancient Doliche, which previously had been only provisionally located. It may represent the original seat of Doliche. The late-antique fortified site at Kastri Livadiou (q.v.) seems to have made use of spoliated material including an inscription that names Doliche as a polis.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A tower at Megara was thought to be the tomb of the legendary Kar, son of Phoroneus.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • A pair of Hellenistic-period towers located at Vathykhori to the east of Psatha in western Attica.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Tom Elliott
  • Located between Megara and Eleusis, the Wrestling Grounds of Cercyon is said to be a place where Cercyon of Eleusis would wrestle strangers, often against their will, until he was eventually bested by Theseus. Pausanias describes the wrestling ground as being located near the tomb of Alope, Cercyon's daughter.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Greta Hawes; R. Scott Smith

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