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21 November 2024

Pleiades Export Updates 2024-11-21:

1 new and 60 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

49e3a2b6 - updated legacy csv
7cf63b91 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
f9893587 - updated gis package
9d928df3 - updated data quality
4a9d6ab7 - updated bibliography
b7923270 - updated indexes
7e1ed194 - updated sidebar

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

aeab1695 - updated geojson and names index

21 November 2024

Updated Pleiades Sidebar data:

There are 28,342 Pleiades matches across all 6 datasets (cflago, edhgeo, itinere, manto, nomisma, wikidata). 5,634 of these are reciprocated by Pleiades. 19,229 unique Pleiades places are referenced.

github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da

21 November 2024

Pleiades < -- > Wikidata updates:

12154 Wikidata entities include a Pleiades ID property and 4769 Pleiades entities include a Wikidata ID property. Of these, 4765 are mutual (bidirectional). 6341 Pleiades resources to which Wikidata links can be added after they are checked. 4 Wikidata items to which Pleiades IDs can be added after they are checked. 90 Wikidata items that each link to more than one Pleiades ID.

github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

20 November 2024

Export Updates 2024-11-20:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

7 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

89883b44 - updated legacy csv
e51e26ea - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
6fa8888d - updated gis package
473cf3ab - updated data quality
364cbbc6 - updated bibliography
3ec8248d - updated indexes
935522f2 - updated sidebar

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

no change

20 November 2024

Updated Pleiades Sidebar data:

There are 28,331 Pleiades matches across all 6 datasets (cflago, edhgeo, itinere, manto, nomisma, wikidata). 5,582 of these are reciprocated by Pleiades. 19,219 unique Pleiades places are referenced.

New data from itinere, nomisma, and wikidata were incorporated.

github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da

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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
    Contributors:
  • 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
    Contributors:
  • 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
    Contributors:
  • 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
    Contributors:
  • 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
    Contributors:
  • 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
    Contributors:
  • 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
    Contributors:
  • A street of the Esquiline Hill attested by Varro.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A vicus in located in Regio XIV of ancient Rome.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Vicus Silani Salientis was a street located on the Aventine Hill in Rome.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

Modified Place Resources