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15 May 2024

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1 new and 39 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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8c54b5c2 - updated legacy csv
909a79a0 - updated json
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61dc63a5 - updated gis package
cd9175db - updated data quality
828d0342 - updated bibliography
edcaf30c - updated indexes

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99b3ec12 - updated geojson and names index

14 May 2024

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a402bfb2 - updated geojson and names index

14 May 2024

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No new or updated places; however, 23,899 Barrington Atlas references have been regularized across the entire dataset.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

17e122ef - updated legacy csv
f3a052d5 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
10e111b6 - updated gis package
82082c92 - updated data quality
a7eada45 - updated bibliography
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13 May 2024

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68 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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"main" branch:

9aee8de1 - updated legacy csv
0a1119be - updated json
6695b225 - updated rdf/ttl
410283f7 - updated gis package
811f8aed - updated data quality
87031795 - updated bibliography
ef0733a3 - updated indexes

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

f8d1b6cb - updated geojson

10 May 2024

Today's sneak peek is the Pandroseion, an open-air precinct dedicated to Pandrosos, located on the Acropolis of Athens, at the west side of the Erechtheion. It contained the sacred olive tree of Athena and an altar of Zeus Herkeios...

See further: hcommons.social/@paregorios/11

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 19 new and 185 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Richard Talbert.
Last Week in Pleiades (22-29 April 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from north-western coastal France northwest to southeast Asia.

New Place Resources

  • A Mycenaean palace located on the Acropolis of Athens was probably built in the Late Helladic IIIB period (13th century BC). Its existence is inferred from various earthworks and a limestone column base, which suggest that it was located in the area of the Erechtheion. It probably ceased to function in the Late Helladic IIIC period (12th-11th centuries BC).
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • An altar and sanctuary on the Acropolis of Athens, site of the bouphonia ritual during the Dipolieia festival. The shrine is to be identified with a set of cuttings at the highest point on the Acropolis, northeast of the Parthenon.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A temple built on the Acropolis of Athens ca. 575 BC, known from architectural and sculptural fragments, which include a three-headed snake-man whose beards are blue. One possibility is that it stood on the Dörpfeld foundations, serving as an early temple of Athena Polias, and was succeeded by the Archaios Neos at the end of the 6th century BC. The other is that it was an early temple of Athena Parthenos, located on the site of the Parthenon, and succeeded by the Older Parthenon in the 480s BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A colossal bronze statue of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens, built in the mid-5th century BC by Pheidias. The base was repaired in the time of Augustus. In Late Antiquity, the statue was transferred to Constantinople, where it was destroyed in 1203.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • Cape Nara or Nara Burnu is a headland on the Anatolian side of the Dardanelles Straits, north of Çanakkale, Turkey.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Chalkotheke was a treasury on the Acropolis of Athens, built in the late fifth or early fourth century BC to house metal objects, especially weapons and armour. Many inscribed inventories survive from the fourth century BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • An Archaic Greek temple at Corfu built in the Doric order ca. 500 B.C.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The foundations of a 6th century BC temple on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to Athena Polias. It is disputed whether these foundations belong to the same structure as the 6th-century BC architectural fragments known as the Bluebeard temple. At the end of the 6th century, the foundations were reused for another temple of Athena Polias, the Archaios Neos, which was destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A spring located in a cave on the northwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, in use from the Late Neolithic period. It was built up in the Late Mycenaean period and converted into a rectangular fountain house with a paved court in the 460s BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A shaft well nearly forty metres deep on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens, opened up around 1200 BC to provide a water supply for the citadel. It was abandoned after the upper staircase collapsed around 1175 BC and filled with rubbish. The entrance is near the northwest corner of the house of the Arrhephoroi.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A sanctuary in Attica, containing the Palladion, an image of Athena captured during the Trojan War by the Argives, who were killed by Damophon and the Athenians on their way home. The sanctuary was the location of a lawcourt for cases of involuntary homicide, attempted homicide, and homicide of a foreigner, resident foreigner or enslaved person. It was probably located in south-eastern Athens or perhaps in Phaleron.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • The Porta Viminalis was a gate in Rome's republican-period city wall. It was located between the Porta Collina and the Porta Esquilina in the vicinity of the present-day Termini Station and the Piazza dei Cinquecento.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The sanctuary of Aphrodite Pandemos ("of all the People") and Peitho ("Persuasion"), established by Theseus or Solon, was located on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens, directly below the Nike Temple bastion. It was a centre of the Aphrodisia and Arrephoria festivals. The surviving remains belong to a structure built ca. 287/6 BCE.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite, located in a fold of the rock on the north slope of the Acropolis of Athens, active from at least the mid-fifth century BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • Sarxa was a station in Macedonia, to the east of the Strymon River, on the road from Philippi to Herakleia Sintike. It is included on the Peutinger Table.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Richard Talbert
    Contributors:
  • A Hellenistic temple, possibly of Zeus, the foundation of which was excavated on the southern outskirts of the residential area of modern Skydra in Greece.
    Creators: Brady Kiesling; Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Thermae Novati, ancient baths of the Vicus Patricius that were located in the vicinity of S. Pudenziana.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • An Early Christian basilica dating to the fifth and sixth centuries CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The Villa dei Casoni is sometimes referred to as the Villa di Varrone, based on some scholarly assumptions that it once belonged to Marcus Terentius Varro. This late republican to early imperial platform villa is located near Poggio Mirteto, Montopoli di Sabina, Italy.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

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