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Last Week in Pleiades (16-23 October 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new place resources and approved updates to 83 existing place resources. Work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, and Brady Kiesling.
Last Week in Pleiades (16-23 October 2023)

A map of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia with orange "plus sign" icons indicating updated place resources and bright pink dots indicating new place resources.

New Place Resources

  • The Briord Roman aqueduct.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A toponym used in the later part of the Roman Republican period to describe the portion of the Esquiline plateau that lay outside the porta Esquilina. Its limits are unknown, although Strabo has it located to the north of the via Labicana.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The remains of a private domus that date to the second and third centuries CE and include a Mithraeum. This complex eventually became incorporated into the fourth-century basilica on the site of the later basilica of San Clemente al Laterano.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A forum complex at Rome begun under Domitian but completed under Nerva and dedicated in A.D. 97. Sometimes referred to as the Forum Transitorium, the complex was the next to last of the imperial fora at Rome.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • A painted tomb located near the Porta Latina in Rome. The tomb's owner, Patronus, is identified as a Greek physician of the first century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Porta Querquetulana was a gateway of Rome's so-called Servian Walls. It derived its name from from a sacred grove of oaks that seems to have vanished by the first century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Minor Basilica of St. Mary in Domnica alla Navicella, also known as Santa Maria in Domnica, is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy. The basilica has ancient origins, with likely foundations in the fifth century A.D.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Tell es-Sakan is the site of an Egyptian and Canaanite maritime settlement located in what is now the Gaza Strip at the mouth of Wadi Ghazzeh.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The archaeological site of Tell Umm Amer in the Gaza Strip is included on the Madaba Map under the name "Tabatha". The site was the birthplace in 291 CE of Saint Hilarion who founded an eponymous monastery there. The monastery was destroyed in 614.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A street of the Esquiline Hill attested by Varro.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A vicus in located in Regio XIV of ancient Rome.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Vicus Silani Salientis was a street located on the Aventine Hill in Rome.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modified Place Resources