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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 (20-27 March 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 23 new place resources and approved updates to 120 existing place resources.
Last Week in Pleiades (20-27 March 2023)

New Place Resources

  • Minor site from which inscribed bricks have been found.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • In the southwest courtyard and nearby rooms of the Aššur temple, researchers found a library and an archive consisting of at least 301 clay tablets, mostly fragmentary, and possibly several hundred more. These tablets were concentrated in the northwest part of the courtyard, the northwest rooms and the Enpi gate, and some stone tablets and other inscribed objects were also found in this area. Tablets found in other parts of the Aššur temple complex also belong to Assur Archive 15. This includes at least 72 clay tablets, often fragmentary, as well as fragmentary clay prisms and cylinders. These tablets were mostly found in the southern part of the large forecourt, as well as west of the temple complex. The texts included in the library date from the Old Assyrian to the Neo Assyrian period, with a core of Middle Assyrian texts and contained cultic and hymnic texts, myths, omens, incantations, prescriptions, lexical lists, as well as hemerological, mathematical, astronomical and astrological texts. The dating of the archive is similar; it contained lists, decrees, letters and historical texts.
    Creators: Poppy Tushingham; Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Jamie Novotny
  • The small town of Burmarina belonged to the area of the city Til-Barsip which was under Neo-Assyrian rule. An archive, consisting of about 130 clay tablets and fragments, including some bullae, was discovered in two rooms, presumably part of a private house, in Area F. Although most texts were written in Assyrian, some were in Aramaic, and some had short Aramaic notes written in ink. While most of the Assyrian texts were loan or purchase documents, the archive also includes short notes and a list. The Aramaic texts concern loans or are short notes written on bullae.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Poppy Tushingham
  • Mound of Elamite city.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • A findspot of an Urartian inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Iron age tomb where cuneiform inscription was found.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • A hill where a basalt stone inscription was found.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • Mound where cuneiform inscription has been found, periodically inundated.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Approximately 85 clay tablets were discovered in the eastern room of a house adjoining the tarrace of the northeastern palace of Guzana. The texts were found in a secondary context, probably as fill, and belonged to Mannu-ki-Aššur, Assyrian governor in Guzana during the first quarter of the 8th century BC. The archive consists of letters to and from the governor, as well as administrative lists concerning persons, animals, and objects.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Poppy Tushingham
  • Inside a clay pot, found in a private house east of the citadel gate of Guzana, excavators discovered the private archive of a man with an Aramaic name, Il-manani, dating to the last years of the Assyrian Empire. The archive consists of five Aramaic dockets concerning loans of barley, previously attached to perishable material, and five clay tablets written in Assyrian cuneiform, specifically three loan documents, one purchase document concerning a slave, and one legal settlement.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Poppy Tushingham
  • In Huzirina, about 400 clay tablets were discovered in a secondary position outside a private house with a central courtyard in area F. Likely, this library was previously located in the private house since a similar type of clay tablet was also found in the central courtyard. The library dates from 718 BC to the end of the Assyrian Empire and belonged to a family of šangû-priests: Qurdi-Nergal, his son Mušallim-Baba and others. The library consists of incantations, incantation rituals, medical texts, prayers, hymns and lexical lists, including god-lists.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Poppy Tushingham
  • The Mamu temple of Imgur-Enlil was located on the northeastern side of the citadel. In Room 8, behind the secondary cella, an archive of 40 clay tablets, belonging to Šumma-ilu and Mamu-iqbi, was discovered. While most texts date to the first half of the 7th century, three texts are older – dating from 734 to 710 BC. The archive consists of debt-notes, leases, one purchase agreement and other legal documents.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Poppy Tushingham
  • Mound, sometimes associated with the ancient city Tummal, which is located in the modern Afak subdistrict of Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah governorate.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Saka burial ground in modern Issyk, Kazakhstan, containing over 40 kurgans dated from the 4th-3rd centuries BCE. The primary kurgan contained the burial of a richly-dressed individual now known as the "Golden Man."
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • An archive, sold on the antiquities market, can be located at Ma’allanate. The site has not been precisely identified, but two suggestions have been made regarding its location. The first situates it in the upper Balikh valley, northern Syria, while the other places it further east, on the Habur river between Tell Halaf/Guzana and Al-Hasakah. Recent opinion favours the first location. 49 cuneiform tablets have been attributed to Ma’allanate. These are mostly written in Assyrian, but three use Babylonian script and dialect. In addition to these texts, 24 documents are written in Aramaic. The archive belonged to Ḫandi, who had the title “steward of the palace“ was active from 700 to 665 BC, his son Ḫarranayu, who was active from 661 to 644 BC, and Ser-nuri, active from 652 to 622 BC. The relationship between Ser-nuri and the father and son is unclear. The archive contains loan documents of silver and barley, payments of loans, purchase documents of slaves and land, and other documents.
    Creators: Poppy Tushingham; Thomas Seidler
    Contributors:
  • The classical and Hellenistic period acropolis of the island of Nisyros dates from the sixth to the fourth century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Pompeii II, 3, 7 is a garden entrance linked to II, 3, 8 and II, 3,9. II, 3, 8 is identified as a workshop, either the Officina vasaria or caupona of Nicanor. This complex was positioned across the street from the Palaestra.
    Creators: Yuyao Liu
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • One of three shrines sacred to Serapis identified by archaeologists working at Delos in the nineteenth century.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The so-called "Shop of Acastus" was a taberna in Pompeii that stood to at least two stories. It is located in the same block as the public bath complex at VII, 5, 24.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The archaeological site of Stancija Blek (Tar-Vabrega, Istria-Croatia) is located on the west coast of Istria. In antiquity, the site would have been located in the territory of Parentium. Archaeological investigation has documented more than 1,500 years of occupation, beginning perhaps with a Roman-period agricultural establishment (villa) that was subsequently followed by Late Antique and Medieval phases that include a so-called tower. Nearby are the remains of the church of Santa Croce.
    Creators: Francis Tassaux
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • Place where cuneiform inscription has been found.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • An ancient theater located in the settlement of Delos.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • In House C1 in the Lower City of Til-Barsip, 22 Assyrian clay tablets, as well as 2 Aramaic texts, were discovered in and around the doorway between Room XI and XII in a secondary position. The earliest text dates to 683 BC, during the reign of Sennacherib (704-681 BC), but most of the documents date later, to the reign of Ashurbanipal (668-ca. 631 BC). The archive belonged to a man called Hanni, with some of the texts also concerning a man named Ištar-duri, and consists of purchase and loan documents as well as some others, such as a juridicial agreement.
    Creators: Poppy Tushingham; Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

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