Last Week in Pleiades (16-23 January 2023)
New Place Resources
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Medium-sized Sumerian city close to modern Al-Nasiriyya.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker -
Site for Urartian rock inscription (also known as "Delibaba inscription").
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: -
Find place for a Urartian stele.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Fortress close to the Urartian capital Tushpa.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: -
Military barracks reworked from private houses in Block K5 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Bath building constructed by Roman soldiers in Block C3.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Bath building located in the intramuros military sector of Dura-Europos, replaced by Bath E3 Phase 2.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Bath building located in the intramuros military sector of Dura-Europos, replaces Bath E3 Phase 1.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Bath building constructed by Roman soldiers in Block M7.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Building located west of the principia in block E7 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
A Tuscanic podium temple that is often referred to as being of the Capitolium type was built at Terracina in the middle of the first century BCE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
A Medieval fort dating from the mid-ninth to the eleventh century CE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Church adapted from a private house building in Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
7th-century Armenian church in the Kars region of Turkey. This church is now ruined, but still is the second-largest domed basilica from the 7th-century Caucasus still extant.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: -
Partially excavated military barracks reworked from private houses in Block E5 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Unexcavated military barracks reworked from private houses in Block E6 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks located north of the camp wall in the northern part of Block K5 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks located north of the camp wall in the northern part of Block K5 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
First phase of a sacred space dedicated to the worship of the god Mithras at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Mosque in the village of Güzelhisar/Avnik where a Urartian inscription was found in 1965.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: -
Remains of a large house with peristyle located within the intramuros military sector of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Private house converted later into the barracks of K5.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Private house later adapted for use as synagogue phase 1.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Private house later converted for military use as X7 Barracks.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Private house later converted for military use as X7 Barracks.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Unexcavated military barracks south of House J1-A in Block J1 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Unexcavated military barracks reworked from private houses in Block J2 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Unexcavated military barracks reworked from private houses in Block J3 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Unexcavated military barracks reworked from private houses in Block J4 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks in the southern part of Block J6 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks reworked from private houses in Block J7 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Unexcavated military barracks reworked from private houses in Block J8 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks located north of the camp wall in the northern part of Block K3 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks located north of the camp wall in the northern part of Block K5 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Military barracks located north of the camp wall in the northern part of Block K7 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Final phase of a sacred space dedicated to the worship of the god Mithras at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Armenian monastery and find place for a Urartian stele.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: -
Second phase of a sacred space dedicated to the worship of the god Mithras at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Small temple with pitched roof presumably dedicated to Zeus, located in the military campus zone Block A1 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
"I Pini di Sirolo" is the name given to the archaeological site of a Picene necropolis of the first millennium BCE in Italy's Marche region. The necropolis included a large tumulus of the sixth century BCE that included two chariots.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Probable statue base placed outside the temple of Artemis Azzanathkona at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Fragmentary remains of three phases of pre-Roman period buildings under the foundations of the Mithraeum at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Ramp associated with Sasanian Persian siege and eventual fall of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Subterranian mine aimed at deterring the Sasanian Persian siege and eventual fall of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Palace building located at the northeast within the military sector at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Small temple building E7-19 with tenemos E7-18 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Subterranian mine associated with Sasanian Persian siege and eventual fall of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Synagogue adapted from a private house building in Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Renovation of the synagogue at Dura-Europos c. 244 CE.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Small temple located to the northeast inside the military sector at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Temple building located in the southwest corner of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Temple building located on the northwest side of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
The Temple of Roma and Augustus at Leptis Magna is a large temple (ca. 46 x 20 meters) situated on the so-called "Old Forum". It was initially erected between 8 BCE and 19 CE using limestone from Ras el-Hammam. The temple has a pseudo-peripteral temple and is oriented to the southeast. Reconstruction and restoration in the second century CE used marble instead of the original limestone.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Temple at Dura-Europos named by excavators according to association with Gadde/Fortune of the city, but more recently recognized as a temple principally devoted to Malakbel.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Temple situated on a raised podium and accessed by stairs, dedicated to an unknown deity and located in Block A1 at Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Temple building located on the southwest side of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Temple of unknown dedication located in Block X9 of Dura-Europos.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
An Etruscan tumulus-type tomb in the Monte Abatone necropolis of Caere that dates ca. 320-200 BCE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Minor Bronze Age kingdom of Western Anatolia whose exact location(s) and extent are matters of scholarly debate. It bordered the kingdoms of Arzawa, Pitašša, and Tarhuntašša, and may have been centered around the settlement known in the Classical period as Hormoi in Phrygia.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Noah Kaye; Tom Elliott -
The site of a Romano-British settlement located in Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, England.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Military barracks reworked from private houses in Block X7 at Dura-Europos, located east and north of the X7 temple.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modified Place Resources
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 G3 Alfoldean
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: update references; created OSM location of Roman Station; created connection "Trisanton (river)"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
The northern portion of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known today as Upper Mesopotamia. The area, extending from the mountains of eastern Anatolia in the north to the Tharthar Depression (northwest of Baghdad) in the south, is an alluvial plain that formed an important crossroads region in the ancient and medieval periods. Major settlements of the region in the early Islamic period include Ar-Raqqah and Edessa.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
Actors: Gabriel McKee -
Alsium served as a port for Caere, together with Fregenae.
Creators: L. Quilici; S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A Urartian settlement on a hill overlooking the Euphrates River
Creators: M. Roaf; S.E. Kroll; St J. Simpson; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified OSM location of Altıntepe Höyüğü (reimported full Way geometry and updated provenance); created CIGS location of Altıntepe
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott -
The principal temple of Angkor, the capital city of the Khmer empire, Angkor Wat was constructed in the 12th century CE. Angkor was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 74 unlocated Aphthis
Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified name "Aphthis" (Greek name, Hdt. reference)
Actors: Tom Elliott -
Rab island in the Adriatic Sea.
Creators: M. Šašel Kos; P. Kos
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The name of the ancient city of Arrapha is first attested in the time of the Neo-Sumerian empire. It later became part of the Akkadian empire. Its location is thought to be that of modern Kirkuk in northeastern Iraq.
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; B. Siewert-Mayer; DARMC; H. Kopp; R. Talbert; W. Röllig
Modifications: update summary; add TM GEO ID; update references; created CIGS location of Kirkūk; created OSM location of قلعة كركوك - قەڵای کەرکووک (Kirkuk Citadel); modified name "Arrapha" (update reference); modified name "Arrapachitis" (update reference); created name "Kirkūk"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
An ancient settlement of the Philistines.
Creators: B. Isaac
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Carolin Johansson; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created CIGS location of Ashdod; created name "Ashdod"; created name "Ashdūd"; created name "Isdud"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott -
Aššur, modern Qal'at Sherqat, is an Assyrian city on the western bank of the Tigris River. Named after its enigmatic tutelary deity, it was the original capital, ancestral home, and burial place of the Assyrian royal family. From the late third millennium B.C. until 614 B.C., when the city was captured and destroyed by the Medes, Aššur was Assyria's most important religious center. It was also Assyria's principal administrative center until the beginning of the ninth century, when Ashurnasirpal II (883-859) moved the capital to the newly constructed Calah.
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Ryan Horne; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created CIGS location of Qalʻat Shirqāṭ
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott -
Town in the Khabur River basin in Northern Syria, now known as Chagar Bazar. First settled in the Neolithic Period, the town appears to have been abandoned during the Early Bronze Age. It was resettled in the Early Dynastic period, becoming an administrative center of the Old Assyrian Empire.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg
Modifications: created CIGS location of Tall Shāghir Bāzār; created name "Tall Shāghir Bāzār"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott -
A pre-Romano and Romano-British settlement was located at Baldock along the Icknield Way.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: summary; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 G3 Ballatha
Creators: P.-L. Gatier; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; M. Ballance; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: created OSM location of أرسلان طاش (Arslan Tash); created CIGS location of Arslān Ṭash; created name "Arslān Ṭash"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
The modern city of Benghazi, Libya, began as the Greek colony of Euesperides ca. 525 BC. The city was later renamed Berenice in honor of Berenice of Cyrene, the queen of Ptolemy III Euergetes.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references; modified name "Berenice" (update reference)
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient Anatolian settlement occupied from the Late Chalcolithic period through the Bronze Age.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Modifications: created connection "Walma"
Actors: Gabriel McKee; Tom Elliott -
Bykes Limne (the Putrid Lake)
Creators: David Braund
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; Diane Braund; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient settlement on the Euphrates river in modern Syria.
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Anne Chen; Adam Rabinowitz; Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Kali Kocian; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; Faith Lubeck; Jeffery Mayfield; R. Talbert; Rajas Pradhan
Modifications: created name "Europos-Doura"
Actors: Anne Chen; Tom Elliott -
Ephesus/Arsinoe(ia) was the most important ancient metropolis of Ionian Asia Minor.
Creators: C. Foss; G. Reger
Contributors: Adam Rabinowitz; Brady Kiesling; Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Joel Michael Kent; Phoebe Acheson; Ryan Horne; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; B. Siewert-Mayer; DARMC; H. Kopp; R. Talbert; W. Röllig; jfu
Modifications: created connection "Arzawa"
Actors: Gabriel McKee; Tom Elliott -
Erebuni was a fortified city of the ancient kingdom of Urartu located in what is now Yerevan, Armenia.
Creators: David Braund
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; Diane Braund; R. Talbert
Modifications: created GICS location of Arin Berd; created OSM location of Էրեբունու ամրոց; created name "Arin Berd"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 G3 Farley Heath
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: add wikidata x2; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 G4 Hardham
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 62 unlocated Holmoi
Creators: T. Drew Bear
Contributors: Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Walma"
Actors: Gabriel McKee; Tom Elliott -
The Ikarian Sea is the southeastern part of the Aegean Sea, extending from Samos to Mykonos.
Creators: C. Foss; G. Reger
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A necropolis of ancient Caere with particularly important evidence of funerary assemblages showing the influence of the Orientalizing period.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Modifications: add Gilotta et al. 2022
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources; it is generally identified with Aušur ar-Rafi'a (Tell Aušerīya).
Creators: Claudia Horst
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg
Modifications: Change type wiki data; created CIGS location of Tall ‘Aushariyah; created name "Tall ‘Aushariyah"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
Porolissum was a Roman city in Dacia established in A.D. 106. It became the capital of Dacia Porolissensis in A.D. 124.
Creators: J.J. Wilkes
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: add topostext, update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Pyrgi is an ancient Etruscan port city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy. A Roman colony was established at the site by 191 B.C. In 1964 the bi-lingual 'Pyrgi Plaques' were discovered during the course of excavations.
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Ryan Horne; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified name "Pyrgoi" (time period); created name "Pyrgoi"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
Sacer Mons is a hill on the banks of the Anio river and is connected, traditionally, with the episode of the secession of the Roman plebs of 494 BC.
Creators: L. Quilici; S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified name "Sacer Mons" (Latin name, reference)
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 14 E2 Sanxay
Creators: H.S. Sivan; R.W. Mathisen
Contributors: Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 54 C2 Skamneli
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created location "GPS Coordinates (inside small fort)"
Actors: Tom Elliott -
Stonea, also referred to as Stonea Iron Age Camp, is located near March in the Cambridgeshire Fens in eastern England. Occupation of the hill fort begins ca. 500 BCE. Roman activity could be related to a military engagement in 47 CE mentioned by Tacitus. This engagement was between the Iceni tribe and Roman auxiliaries commanded by Ostorius Scapula.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: update summary, add Tacitus reference
Actors: Tom Elliott -
A strategic Volscian city that had come under Roman control by 509 B.C.; a Roman citizen colony was established there in 329 B.C. The site is particularly notable for the remains of the terraced sanctuary of Iuppiter Anxur.
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified name "Tarracinae" (add Latin name, Livy ref., Baseline created); modified name "Tarracina" (update Mela reference); modified name "Anxyr" (Reference, Latin name, Baseline created); created name "Terracina"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott -
Tell Abu Salabikh was the site of a small Sumerian city of the third millennium BC.
Creators: A. Hausleiter; M. Roaf; R. Wenke; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; B. Siewert-Mayer; DARMC; H. Kopp; P. Flensted Jensen; R. Talbert; W. Röllig
Modifications: created CIGS location of Tall Abū Ṣālabīkh; created name "Tall Abū Ṣālabīkh"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 74 F3 Thmouis
Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors: Adam Prins; Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; Herbert Verreth; Jen Thum; Mark Depauw; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified name "Thmouis" (Greek name, reference)
Actors: Tom Elliott -
This Roman courtyard villa that yielded ceramics dating to the 4th century CE was located on what is now Church Farm in Totternhoe (Central Bedfordshire, England). The survey and excavations were published in the 1950s; the site was backfilled after excavation and the villa's remains are no longer visible.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The modern river Arun, which drains into the English Channel between modern Portsmouth and Brighton.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 G1 *Zolocerta/‘Coloceia’
Creators: M. Roaf; S.E. Kroll; St J. Simpson; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker