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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 (18-25 September 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new place resources and approved updates to 171 existing place resources. Work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith
Last Week in Pleiades (18-25 September 2023)

New Place Resources

  • The so-called Antikythera shipwreck dates to the second quarter of the first century BCE. Sponge divers discovered the shipwreck near Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. The wreck has produced numerous artifacts, including an object known commonly as the Antikythera mechanism.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A section of the ancient city wall of Salamis, dating to the fourth century BCE, has been excavated protruding from the north shore of Ampelaki Bay, where it was partly built into an early modern jettty.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • An ancient temple complex of the Khmer Empire, Koh Ker is also known as Lingapura or Chok Gargyar. The site is located in the Srayong commune of Preah, Vihear province's Kulen district. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in September 2023 and covers some 1,187 ha.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Through a series of survey and rescue excavations, the modern lignite mines just west of modern Megalopolis (and southwest of the ancient site of Megalopolis) in the Peloponnese have produced important evidence for ice age activity, especially at (but not limited to) a Lower Paeleolithic site known as Marathoussa 1.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • The Roman amphitheater of Meninx.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A temple of the Doric order that was built at Akragas ca. 450 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Thermi, Lesbos, was a Bronze Age port-cum-settlement that flourished during the third millennium BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Trestina, located in the Val di Chiana of Umbria, was the site of the accidental discovery in 1878 of important Orientalizing-period bronzes.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

Modified Place Resources