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Last Week in Pleiades (17-24 February 2025)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 16 new and 200 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (17-24 February 2025)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map spans west to east: Africa and Europe to the Himalaya and Sri Lanka and north to south: Scandinavia to the Horn of Africa.

New Place Resources

  • aedicula Capraria
    A place known as aedicula Capraria is included in the Regionary Catalog for Regio VII. This place seems to be located in the southern part of that region but is generally unknown otherwise.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Arcus Tiberii
    A single-bay triumphal arch dedicated to Tiberius in 16 CE. This arch commemorated the recovery of Varus' standards lost in 9 CE. It stood on the Sacra Via at the northwest corner of the Basilica Iulia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Arcus Traiani (divi Traiani)
    The Arcus Traiani (or Arcus divi Traiani) is included in the listing for Regio I in the Regionary Catalogues. The monument has been the subject of a good deal of speculation, although the ultimate conclusion is that it is now unlocated. Writing in LTUR, D. Palombi rejects earlier correlations with the so-called Arco di Druso. Lanciani suggested that this lost arch was the source of the Trajanic sculptural elements reused in the decoration of the Arch of Constantine at Rome.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Augusteum, so-called Basilica at Herculaneum
    The Augusteum, or so-called Basilica, at Herculaneum, was partially investigated in the eighteenth century. This large complex (68 by 40 meters) had colonnades on three of its sides and faced on to the Decumanus Maximus across from the Basilica Noniana and the College of the Augustales.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
  • Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino
    The Basilica of Sant'Anastasia al Palatino was founded ca. 325 CE on the slopes of the Palatine. It is now a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic church. It is the national church for the Peruvian community of Rome and the Indian community of the Syro-Malabar rite. The original basilica was adjacent to the Circus Maximus and came to be dedicated to Saint Anastasia of Sirmium (281-304 CE.), a Roman woman martyred under Diocletian. In the acts of the synod of 499, the church is listed as the titulus Anastasiae.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Castle of Dokos
    The Castle of Dokos located on the Dokos islet was founded in the seventh century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Catacomb of the Nunziatella
    The Catacomb of the Nunziatella or the Catacomb of the Annunziatella is an ancient catacomb located in Rome's Ardeatina neighborhood in the via di Grotta Perfetta. The catacomb was excavated on the site of a large Republican-period necropolis and does not seem to have been connected with any Christian martyrs.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Church of the Annunziatella
    The church of the Annunziatella is a Catholic church located in Rome's Ardeatino district. It is situated between the via Ardeatina and via di Grotta Perfetta. The church was established in the thirteenth century, as an inscription of Pope Honorius III attests.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Columbarium of Caius Scribonius Menophilus
    The Columbarium of Caius Scribonius Menophilus is located on the grounds of the Doria Pamphili in Rome. The well-preserved columbarium dates to the late republican and early imperial periods and is noted for its wall paintings.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Domus Flavia
    The Domus Flavia is a modern appellation that refers to the palace complex built by the emperor Domitian on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The complex was completed ca. 92 CE. The Flavian complex is considered a part of the larger entity known as Domus Palatina.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • domus Gelotiana
    A domus on the slope of the Palatine Hill that Caius incorporated into the Imperial Palace complex.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Helwan necropolis
    Burial site on the east bank of the Nile (opposite Saqqara) containing over 100 burials dated to the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods.
    Creators: Gabriel McKee
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Meluhha
    A Middle Bronze Age trading partner of Sumer, perhaps located in the Indus valley.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Nuraghe Mannu (Doragli)
    A nuragic archaeological site in eastern Sardinia that overlooks the village of Cala Gonone.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Paedagogium
    The so-called Pedagogium is a building that was part of the Flavian palace complex on the Palatine Hill. It was located below the exedra of the façade of the Domus Augustana. The Paedagogium is thought to have superseded the late-Republican domus known as the Domus Gelotiana.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Vicus Bublarius
    Vicus Bublarius refers to the partially preserved name of a street included in a fragment of the Severan Marble Plan.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott

Updated Place Resources