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Last Week in Pleiades (21-28 April 2025)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new and 94 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, R. Scott Smith and Richard Talbert.
Last Week in Pleiades (21-28 April 2025)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map spans west to east: the Iberian Peninsula to the Hindu Kush. From north to south, it spans: the British Isles to the northern Red Sea.

New Place Resources

  • Ad Taum
    A place included on the Peutinger map.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Horoztepe Bronze Age Settlement and Necropolis
    An archaeological site in modern Turkey's Tokat province that now lies in the eastern portion of the modern town of Erbaa. Excavations were conducted there in the mid-20th century. It is best known for having produced artifacts of the Hatti culture, indicating intensive human activity between 4,000 and 2,000 BCE. Due to agricultural activity and development, the site has been significantly damaged and no archaeology is visible on publicly available aerial/satellite imagery.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Horoztepe Hellenistic Fortification
    Olshausen describes at Horoztepe (Berg) the remains of a fortified settlement (Burg-ruinen) with Hellenistic stairways, cisterns, and rock tombs, but walls of a "later date". Horoztepe, located at modern Bergaa in Turkey's Tokat province, is best known as the site of a Bronze Age settlement and associated cemetery of the Hatti culture. Only cursory publications of the mid-20th-century excavations have appeared; none mention a later fortification, and none are visible in modern, publicly available aerial/satellite imagery.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Ligar (river)
    "Ligar" is provided as a name for a river in Mauretania Caesariensis by the Ravenna Cosmographer (ed. Schnetz). Gsell (AAA) views "Ligar" as a mistake or corruption for "Siga". Neither Schnetz (in his apparatus) nor BAtlDir address the issue. BAtlas/BAtlDir does not include "Ligar" at all.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Roman villa at Mill End
    The remains of a Romano-British villa on the Buckinghamshire bank of the River Thames just south of the village of Mill End. The remains were first observed via parchmarks in 1921.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Small Roman Theater or Odeon at Sisak
    Documented in media released by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media in 2025, remains of a small theater or odeon of Roman date have been identified and consolidated under the early 20th-century city hall of modern Sisak in Croatia (ancient Segestica/Siscia). Existence of a theater at Sisak was previously mooted on the basis of a Latin inscription mentioning a "magister mimariorum" (leader of a mime-troop?) discovered in the 19th century in a "Weingarten" there, but it is unclear if there was an ancient relationship between this inscription, its original social context, and the newly discovered monument.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Temenos castle
    The Castle of Temenos dates to the tenth century. It is located in the in Heraklion Municipality of Crete.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
  • Unnamed place
    An unnamed place included on the Peutinger map. R. Talbert labels it as "unnamed stretch #51" and posits that it represents a deadend on the route continuing from Lissos.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert
    Published by: Tom Elliott

Updated Place Resources