Last Week in Pleiades (15-22 August 2022)
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Last week we published 8 new place resources. In addition, 40 existing place resources were updated.
New Place Resources
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Walls and towers surrounding the ancient city of Alyzeia in Acarnania. Significant reference was made to the plan in Murray 1982 (page 107, figure 107) in mapping these components; however, only those locations that are visible in more recent Google Earth imagery (especially that dating to April 2017 and May 2020) are included here.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: -
A Byzantine and Ottoman fortification northeast of (and overlooking) the Azyleia/Mytika plain in Acarnania, Greece. Some commentators have supposed an earlier antecedent on the site.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: -
A megalithic stone circle dating to the third millennium BCE located in Peraleda de la Mata in eastern Extremadura, Spain. The monument is usually submerged beneath the waters of the Embalse de Valdecañas, a reservoir of the Tagus river.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Three tiers of niches were found in Room H 5 (on the northwestern side of Forecourt I) of the Nabû temple at Dur-Šarrukin, the short-lived capital of the Assyrian king Sargon II (721–705 BC). Fragments of clay tablets and inscribed prisms in these niches suggest that a temple library was located here. The empty niches might be a result of the move of the capital to Nineveh under Sennacherib (704–681 BC) or of the use of perishable writing materials.
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors: -
Cemetery site near Lama village, Iran with almost 60 graves dating to the late 2nd-early 1st millennium CE. Most of the graves were destroyed by bulldozing in the area for a road in December 1999.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
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A limestone quarry located just south of the modern Acarnanian village of Lepenou with clear evidence of having been used as a source for the construction of the temple of Zeus and other monuments at nearby ancient Stratos.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: Brady Kiesling -
A temple in Acarnania, located between Stratos (modern Sourovigli) and modern Lepenou. The temple seems to have been constructed in the Greek Archaic period on the site of an earlier Helladic settlement. The temple continued in operation into the Roman period.
Creators: Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
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A classical/hellenistic temple located in the likely territory of Acarnanian Alyzeia. The temple site lies over 6km southeast from the ancient walled city (about a kilometer south of modern Paliovarka, Greece) at a site known in modern times as Drymonas Archontochoriou. It is perched on rising ground with a view westward to the channel and the island of Karnos (modern Kalamos). Inscriptions have been recovered from the site, and an unlooted portion of a votive deposit was scientifically excavated in the 1990s.
Creators: Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
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Modified Place Resources
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A city located on the west coast of Acarnania. The southwestern portion of the walled city underlies modern Kandila.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: geograv -> evidence; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; tib link; update references, add tm geo id, wikidata, link other to zotero library
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
A Roman amphitheater located south and outside the city walls at Anazarbos (modern Dilekkaya in Turkey).
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added reference: bond 2022; reference: nagihan 2022
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 B4 Arca/Herakleia en Phoinike/Caesarea ad Libanum
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 unlocated Athraelon
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: honigmann 1935
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 unlocated Audasson
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update honigmann 1935
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 unlocated Birthachabraes
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 unlocated Daphnoudin
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update honigmann 1935
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 unlocated Derrima
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A river in eastern Crete, probably to be associated with the modern Sitianos/Stomios, which is known today primarily as the Pentelis Rema and which empties into the Mediterranean Sea at Sitia.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added faure 1984; added wikidata q25163873: pentélis réma and geonames references; cnxn; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 54 C4 Dioryktos?
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added leake 1835 x 2; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Three tiers of niches were found in Room H 5 (on the northwestern side of Forecourt I) of the Nabû temple at Dur-Šarrukin, the short-lived capital of the Assyrian king Sargon II (721–705 BC). Fragments of clay tablets and inscribed prisms in these niches suggest that a temple library was located here. The empty niches might be a result of the move of the capital to Nineveh under Sennacherib (704–681 BC) or of the use of perishable writing materials.
Creators: Thomas Seidler
Contributors:
Modifications: edited
Actors: Thomas Seidler -
A burial, located in the modern village of Gustow in Germany's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state. Grave goods included Roman materials.
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: cleaned up references; corrected erroneous batlas grid square inherited from batldir; summary
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient river of southeast Crete, possibly to be identified with a modern stream that empties into the Libyan Sea just east of the modern village of Gra Lygia in the Ierapetra municipal region.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added associated modern (less certain) location; cleaned up references; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 20 unlocated Herakleia
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications:
Actors: Ryan M. Horne -
The protected, western cove at modern Mytikas in Akarnania, Greece.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: place type; summary; updated locations, names
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient settlement, modern Zengibar Kalesi in Turkey.
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: DARMC, Gabriel McKee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Gabriel McKee -
An ancient river of southwest Sicily, the modern Fiume Verdura
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added modern location and name; cleaned up references; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 unlocated Kalonos
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A small fortress on modern Sokha peak between Mytikas and Archondochori in the municipality of Xiromero, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. The fortress wall makes use of local stone, mixing polygonal and trapezoidal styles. A rock-cut cistern is located inside the fort, and Hellenistic reliefs have been noted. The site has broad intervisibility with the Mytikas valley and the channel around both sides of the island of Karnos (modern Kalamos).
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; place type = fort; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
On the small island of modern Kephalos in the Ambracian Gulf, archaeologists discovered a pair of Christian basilicas with other associated structures including a baptistry and a stoa.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: associated modern locations; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; place types; references; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient river of Sicily, probably to be associated with the modern Fiume Salso in the Etna region and therefore a tributary of the Symaethus (modern Simeto).
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added (less certain) connection; added associated modern (less certain) location and name; cleaned up references; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 54 C4 Leucas
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: Pierre Motylewicz, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 unlocated Melas fl.
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors: R. Talbert, G. Reger, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edit title (river), place type + unlocated, update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
This ancient settlement located on the Gulf of Mirabello at modern Pakheia Ammos in Lasithi, east Crete, has produced archaeological remains dating from Minoan times through the Greek and Roman periods.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient lake in Akarnania, the modern Limni Voulkaria.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient dam, subsequently reused, repaired, and adapted into modern times, in the Glosses pass east of Alyzeia (modern Kalima) and just below the later site of the Byzantine fortress of Varnako/Barnako. Remains of aqueduct and mill fittings of various dates have been noted; the dam and its reservoir are presumed to have been created originally (perhaps in Classical or Hellenistic times) to supply some portion of Alyzeia or its chora.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added imagery location (there are osm nodes for this feature, but they do not correlate well with imagery from google earth and mapbox and therefore have been omitted).; cleaned up batlas reference; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Pharus Ins. (Hvar, Croatia) is an island in the Adriatic Sea.
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: name
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A small, rectangular fortress on a raised terrace of land, located near the, possibly earlier, Xylokastro fortification on Mt. Plakoto in the modern municipal unit of Palairos, Aetolia-Acarnania Regional Unit, Greece.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added topostext; cleaned up batlas reference; create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; location; place type; summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 D2 [Praetoria]
Creators: C. Foss, S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
Modifications: update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 60 B2 Pyktos fl.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications:
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A small fortress with cyclopean masonry reported in the 19th century in the north central part of the Ionian island of Kefalonia, at an inhabited place called Pyrgos near the town of Plagia. At the time, the fort was already partially dismantled by dynamiting and also partially built over. The fortress is presumed to have been of Hellenistic date, but coins of Roman date were also reported.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added associated modern location; cleaned up references; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 unlocated Spelounka
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A classical/hellenistic temple located in the likely territory of Acarnanian Alyzeia. The temple site lies over 6km southeast from the ancient walled city (about a kilometer south of modern Paliovarka, Greece) at a site known in modern times as Drymonas Archontochoriou. It is perched on rising ground with a view westward to the channel and the island of Karnos (modern Kalamos). Inscriptions have been recovered from the site, and an unlooted portion of a votive deposit was scientifically excavated in the 1990s.
Creators: Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Modifications: edited; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
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A small Hellenistic town excavated on the Trypitos promontory E of Siteia, Lasithi Crete. It is probably to be identified with Polichna, attested in ancient literary sources.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
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Ancient road components between Actium and Leucas in Akarnania, Greece.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: cleaned up references; summary; title; updated connections. retract gridsquare in baseline to allow generation of representative point on the basis of connections
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient "princely" grave was discovered in the 19th century at the village of Valløby in Denmark. Among the grave goods were some Roman imports. It is not known if the tomb, which was reportedly marked by a circular stone structure, was singular or part of a larger cemetery.
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added rga; associated modern location; cleaned up references; place-type; summary
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A small guard tower in Epirus.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added suha 2021; cleaned up references; place type; summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient fort on Karnos island (modern Kalamos) with polygonal masonry and black-glazed pottery.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added topostext; batldir; cleaned up references; corrected barrington atlas directory error that confused labeling for this feature: details; corrected page numbers for benton 1931; create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; edited; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; place type; summary; title
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An ancient fort, also known today as Kastri, located on a spur of Mt. Plakoto above a small chapel of Agios Athanasios in the municipal unit of Palairos, Aetolia-Acarnania Regional Unit, Greece.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added imagery location from bkiesling; batldir reference; cleaned up references; corrected barrington atlas directory error that confused labeling for this feature: details; create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; place type; removed erroneous topostext reference; summary; title; topostext reference
Actors: Tom Elliott