Last Week in Pleiades (21-28 November 2022)

The Medieval Cistercian abbey church of Santa Maria di Falleri occupies a portion of what was initially the walled area of the ancient town of Falerii, established in 241 BCE. The abbey's name, along with that of the associated hamlet, preserves the ancient toponymy.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott

A region south of Rome along the Tyrrhenian coast between Ostia and Lavinium that is noted for its numerous rural villas and its connection to otium.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:

One of the largest Early Bronze Age sites in Oman. This site, located in central Oman, has monumental buildings and tombs from the 4th-3rd millennium BCE.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors:

An ancient cemetery at modern Drepano in Greece, uncovered in rescue excavations since the 1970s.
Creators: Enrico Regazzoni
Contributors: Enrico Regazzoni; Tom Elliott

An elite Gallo-Roman villa with evidence for elaborate gardens dating from the first century CE, now located near the modern French town of Richebourg (Ile-de-France).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott

An Etruscan necropolis located in the middle of the Mignone river valley in the comune of Canale Monterano.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:

A Roman-period pottery production workshop dating to the second century CE, located in the modern French commune of Offemont (Territoire de Belfort).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott

An ancient city of the Troad, founded as Antigoneia by Antigonos Monophthalmos. Lysimachos renamed the city Alexandria after 301 BCE. The city became part of the kingdom of Pergamon and, later, the Roman empire.
Creators: C. Foss; G. Reger; S. Mitchell
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Phoebe Acheson; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created OSM location of Alexandria Troas
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A site of settlement connected to thermal springs, according to Ptolemy.
Creators: S.L. Dyson
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified location "OSM location: Antiche Terme di Sardara" (modern); created location "OSM location: Antiche Terme di Sardara"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 12 D2 Aubstadt
Creators: H. Bender
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; G. Moosbauer; M. Puhane; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 12 G3 Chlum
Creators: H. Bender
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; G. Moosbauer; M. Puhane; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 11 H4 Diersheim
Creators: C. Haselgrove; J. Kunow
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Dilbat (modern Tell ed-Duleym), a small city southeast of Babylon on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, was the cult center of the god Uraš and the goddess Ninegal. The site consists of two mounds of ruins: the larger, eastern mound contains the remains of earlier building phases (going back to the city’s founding in the Early Dynastic Period, ca. 2700 BC), while the smaller, western ruin hill contains the first-millennium-BC and later building occupations (down to the early Islamic Period). Little is known about the cultic topography of this small Babylonian city. Two first-millennium-BC ziggurat lists and a few Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions record that Dilbat’s main temple was E-ibbi-Anum and its ziggurat was Eguba’anki, both were dedicated to Uraš. The temple of Ninegal (Bēlet-ēkalli) might have been named Esapar. Recent excavations on the eastern mound have unearthed the Kassite-Period remains of E-ibbi-Anum.
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: added Almamori 2021; changed summary; cleaned up references
Actors: Tom Elliott

The modern Cape Drepano, located at the western nnarrowing of the Corinthian Gulf, just east of Rhion/Antirrhion.
Creators: G. Reger; J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: summary; title; created OSM location of modern lighthouse at Drepano cape; modified name "Drepanon Pr." (type, reference); created name "Drepanon"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A road station mentioned in ancient sources somewhere on the southwestern coast of Cyrenaica. It is possibly to be located in the area of modern Ras Carcura in Libya.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: summary; title; cleaned up references; modified DARMC location 731 (less certain); created GeoNames location of Ra’s Kurkūrah
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Durocasses (Dreux) was the capital of the Celtic tribe of the Durocasses.
Creators: C. Haselgrove; J. Kunow
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A fortified promontory located on the western side of the main port of Piraeus.
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created OSM location of Ηετιώνεια Πύλη (Καστράκι)
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A fortified town located some 6 km from Falerii Veteres and established by the ancient Romans ca. 241 B.C.
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: Bernard et al. 2022
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 12 C3 Gerlachsheim
Creators: H. Bender
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; G. Moosbauer; M. Puhane; R. Talbert
Modifications: update
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 D4 Geronthrai
Creators: G. Reger; J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Enrico Regazzoni; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created name "Geraki"
Actors: Enrico Regazzoni; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 11 I2 Giessen
Creators: C. Haselgrove; J. Kunow
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas, partially excavated in 1885 and 1968. In ancient literature the sanctuary is only mentioned by Pausanias, in whose time it was called the Hyperteleaton and was dedicated to Asclepius. The site is located south of Phoiniki in the southeastern Peloponnese at a place known in the 19th century called Chasanaga.
Creators: G. Reger; J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Enrico Regazzoni; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: added multiple references; removed Smith (outdated); summary; updated Names; Corrected Summary; created name "Chasanaga"; modified name "Phoiniki" (reference, Baseline created, dates); created name "Phoiniki"
Actors: Enrico Regazzoni; Tom Elliott

Both Iulius Caesar and Tacitus refer to the "Island of the Batavi", once located at a split in the Rhine and framed by the Waal river on the one hand and the Lower Rhine on the other. This area seems to correspond roughly to the modern Betuwe in the Netherlands.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Brian Turner; Tom Elliott
Modifications: added access URI to New Pauly ref; added Pauly ref.
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Isin (modern Ishan al-Bahriyat), a city located 107 km southeast of Babylon and 27 km south of Nippur, was an important cult center of the healing goddess Gula (who was also called Ninisinna, the “Lady of Isin”). Its principal religious structure was called Egalmah, which was rebuilt during the long reign of the Neo-Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 604–562 BC). The Sumerian ceremonial names of few other of this city’s temples are known. Although Isin was founded as late as in the Early Dynastic Period, possibly already in the Ubaid period, and its main cult was active until at least the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (625–539 BC), the city held briefly authority over southern Mesopotamia only twice in its long history. The First Dynasty of Isin, under its fifteen kings, was the dominant power from the collapse of the Ur III state until Isin’s chief rival Larsa became the most dominate city-state (ca. 2017–1924 BC) The Second Dynasty of Isin, under its eleven kings, held authority over Babylonia from ca. 1157 BC to 1026 BC, when it was supplanted by the Second Dynasty of the Sealand.
Creators: A. Hausleiter; M. Roaf; R. Wenke; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; P. Flensted Jensen; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified name "Isin" (Baseline created)
Actors: Jamie Novotny

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 D4 Ivan-i Karkheh/Eran-Khurra-(kard-) Shapur?/Karkha de Ladan
Creators: A. Hausleiter; E.J. Keall; M. Roaf
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Larsa (modern Tell as-Senkereh), a city located ca. 21 km east of Uruk, was an important southern Mesopotamian cult center of the sun-god (Utu/Šamaš). Its principal religious structure was called Ebabbar, just like the Šamaš temple in the northern Babylonian city Sippar. The Sumerian ceremonial names of some of Larsa’s other religious building are mentioned in two first-millennium-BC lists of ziggurats and some royal inscriptions, especially from the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2025–1763 BC) — when the city of Larsa temporarily became a dominant political power (ca. 1924–1763 BC) — and the Neo-Babylonian Period. The most important of these, at least in the sixth century BC, was the temple tower Edurana, which sometimes went by the name Eduranki. At the beginning of the second millennium BC (ca. 1924 BC), under a man called Gungunum (r. 1932–1906 BC), Larsa broke free of Isin’s dominance over it and established its own political dynasty. Although it grew more powerful than its former overlord, Larsa never accumulated a significant amount of territory. At its peak, under the authority of Rīm-Sîn I (r. 1822–1763 BC), it controlled only ten to fifteen other city-states. This city’s political dominance, as well as its dynastic line, was brought to an end by Hammu-rāpi of Babylon (r. 1792–1750 BC). After 1763 BC, Larsa was never again a major political player in Babylonia.
Creators: A. Hausleiter; M. Roaf; R. Wenke; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; B. Siewert-Mayer; DARMC; H. Kopp; P. Flensted Jensen; R. Talbert; W. Röllig
Modifications: added reference; Edited Summary, tags
Actors: Tom Elliott

Laurentum was an ancient city of Latium located some 16 miles from Rome, between Ostia and Lavinium. Its precise location can no longer be determined. In Rome's legendary history Laurentum is the site of king Latinus' dwelling.
Creators: L. Quilici; S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Ager Laurens"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A Roman villa about 200 meters south of the center of the modern village of Santervas del Burgo and about 100 meters south of the left bank of the river Cejos. Included in the Barrington Atlas (25 B4 no. 129) under the toponym "Los Villares (Fuentearmegil)".
Creators: H.S. Sivan; R.W. Mathisen; S.J. Keay
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; Yiyun Liu; R. Talbert
Modifications: edit title; edited; summary; created OSM location of Yacimiento villa romana de Los Villares
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 11 B3 Lyons-la-Forêt
Creators: C. Haselgrove; J. Kunow
Contributors: Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created OSM location of Lyons-la-Forêt
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 11 I4 Magdalenenberg
Creators: C. Haselgrove; J. Kunow
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Marad (modern Tell Wannat es-Sadum), a city located ca. 60 km southeast of Babylon, was the cult center of the god Lugal-Marda; it is approximately halfway between Babylon and Isin, on the Arahtu canal. Details about the cultic topography of this settlement, which was established in the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2700 BC), are known from a number of cuneiform sources, including Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions, the so-called "Canonical Temple List," and two first-millennium-BC ziggurat lists. Marad's principal temple, Eigikalama, is attested from the Old Akkadian Period to Neo-Babylonian Period.
Creators: A. Hausleiter; M. Roaf; R. Wenke; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; P. Flensted Jensen; R. Talbert
Modifications: Edited intro, details
Actors: Jamie Novotny; Tom Elliott

Meninx/Lotophagitis/Girba Ins. (modern Djerba) is the largest island of North Africa.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: add reference Ritter 2020; modified Imagery location of Djerba (update); created OSM location of Djerba Island
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A nuraghe that is located atop a trachytic rock at a bend in the Rio d'Aridda, a river that has carved a deep valley.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Modifications: created name "Nuraghe Conca Niedda"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A river of Thassalia, associated by modern scholars with the Kalentzis.
Creators: J. Fossey; J. Morin
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; G. Reger; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified OSM Location of modern Kalentzis river (Create, Submit for review, Initial revision, Location from OSM created by Products.PleiadesEntity.browser.osm.OSMLocationFactory); modified name "Onochonos" (Baseline created); modified name "Kalentzis" (Create, Submit for review, Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 C2 Otaq-i Farhad/Surkhadeh
Creators: A. Hausleiter; E.J. Keall; M. Roaf
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A major Greco-Roman center of south Italy, Poseidonia/Paestum was originally founded by Greeks from Sybaris in the seventh century BC, who named the settlement Poseidonia. After the Pyrrhic war, the city became a Latin colony named Paestum ca. 273 BC.
Creators: A.M. Small; I.E.M. Edlund Berry
Contributors: Alex Biad; Adam Rabinowitz; Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; John Muccigrosso; Keri Lynne Porter; Noura Alavi; Robert B Camp; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; Levi Noble; R. Talbert
Modifications: created OSM location of Archaeological site of Paestum
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 B2 Ravansar
Creators: A. Hausleiter; E.J. Keall; M. Roaf
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

At the Prestatyn Roman Site, a bath complex was identified via excavation (1934-7; 1981). The bathhouse measures approximately 11.7 by 4.5 meters.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: added Owen 2022
Actors: Tom Elliott

Late Roman fortifications.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Modifications: modified Imagery location of Roman walls of Lugo (update PAA); created OSM location of Roman Walls of Lugo
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An Etruscan city captured by Rome in 294 B.C., Rusellae's >2 mile circuit of megalithic walls represent an important early instance of stone fortification walling in the Italian peninsula.
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Ryan Horne; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created name "Rousilanoi"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 C2 Sahneh
Creators: A. Hausleiter; E.J. Keall; M. Roaf
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Sippar-Amnanum (modern Tell ed-Der; also referred to as Sippar-Annunītu) was a small city located 6 km northeast of Sippar and 63 km north of Babylon. The goddess Annunītu was the patron deity of this sister city of Sippar and Eulmaš was its principal temple. An archive of ca. 2,000 cuneiform tablets dating the the reigns of several kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon were excavated in the house of Ur-Utu, the chief lamentation-priest of the goddess Annunītu. From several inscriptions of Nabonidus (r. 555–539 BC), Babylon’s last native king, it is certain that Sippar-Amnanum (which he refers to as Sippar-Annunītu) was still occupied and its cult was still in use in the sixth century BC, although it had been (partially) destroyed by the seventh-century-BC Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BC).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Müge Durusu; Tom Elliott
Modifications: Edited intro; modified name "Sippar-Annunītu" (Edited romanized name, summary, certainty, references, creators to include info from duplicate Sippar-Annunitum (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/392373882/sippar-annunitum, this name should now be retracted as it is a duplicate of this entry), Baseline created)
Actors: Jamie Novotny; Tom Elliott

Tamuda was a city of Mauretania Tingitana. Pliny hints at a pre-Roman settlement that has been confirmed archaeologically.
Creators: M. Euzennat
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: add geonames, wikidata references; added Bernard 2020 reference; modified OSM location of Tétouan archaeological area (edited)
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Modern Cape Mustafa, Tunisia.
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: modified Geonames location of Ra’s Muşţafá (Create, edited, Submit for review, Initial revision); modified name "Ra’s Muşţafá" (Submit for review, edited, Initial revision, Retract, Create); modified name "akra Taphitis" (Create, Submit for review, Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

A sanctuary at the mouth of the Sele river in Italy with an octastyle temple dedicated to the Argive Hera.
Creators: A.M. Small; I.E.M. Edlund Berry
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created name "Heras ieron tes Argoas"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

The Timpone della Motta is an archaeological site located near Francavilla Marittima. The site was inhabited from the Middle Bronze Age onward. During the Iron Age, an Oenotrian settlement flourished here, one that developed into an important sanctuary. The site passed into Greek control in the later seventh century B.C. and was eventually abandoned following the Bruttian conquest of the region during the fourth century B.C.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Modifications: Brocato et al. 2022 added
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 B3 Timpone Rasta
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A Roman bridge located northwest of modern Ussana in Sardinia.
Creators: S.L. Dyson
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: cleaned up references; summary; title; created location "OSM location: Ponte Romano, Ussana "
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott