Last Week in Pleiades (23-30 January 2023)

Urartian fortress of Aznavurtepe.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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Mound close to Harran where an inscribed stele has been found.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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Village where fragments of a Urartian stele have been found (one in a church, one in a fortress).
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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Urartian site containing a ruined building and some rock inscriptions.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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Large mound with citadel in the lain of Shahrizor, occupied from Early Bronze Age to modern time.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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A Christian catacomb located at the tenth mile of the ancient Via Labicana.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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The Chrysopolitissa complex in Paphos is an archaeological area that includes various ruins. Among these are those of an early Christian basilica (fourth to seventh centuries), a medieval Franciscan church (thirteenth century), and the so-called Pillar of St. Paul.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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A temple listed in the Notitia for Regio XI but not the Curiosum may be a misidentification of the temple of Summanus.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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The Friars Wash Roman Temple was noted first in 1965. Aerial photography and subsequent archaeological investigation identified a system of ditches and two rectangular structures that were considered to be Romano-British temples.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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A place included in Regio XI of the Regionary Catalogues, this may have been a shrine on the spina of the Circus Maximus.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Early and Middle Bronze Age city in northern Mesopotamia.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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A temple dedicated to Mercury and Maia that was located on the slopes of the Aventine Hill overlooking the Circus Maximus.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Stronghold with traces of Assyrian buildings where inscribed blocks have been found. Possibly ancient Alše.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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A Roman villa site in Hertfordshire, England, Radwell Roman villa is located 500 meters west of Ermine Street and some 4 km north of the small Roman town at Baldock.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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The remains of a long, early Imperial-period Roman cryptoporticus at Beneventum that was re-used in the Middle Ages. It is situated between the modern San Lorenzo district and the rural area of Cellarulo, near the Basilica of the Madonna delle Grazie in Benevento, Italy.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott

"Aedes Summanus" or "Templum Summanus" was a temple built near the Circus Maximus during the war with Pyrrhus. It could have been located on the slope of the Aventine Hill. The temple was likely built after the terracotta statue of Summanus included in the pedimental sculpture of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, causing the statue's head to be flung into the river Tiber.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Destroyed Armenian monastery in the village of Bakraçlı where Urartian inscriptions have been found.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Tom Elliott

Site for Urartian palace and citadel.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 C3 Aigys
Creators: G. Reger; J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Aigytis"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Apollonia was an ancient city in the Cyrenaica and a port of Cyrene. The city was one of the five cities of the Libyan Pentapolis in Cyrenaica.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative)); created connection "Pentapolis"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An early cult center connected with Herakles located in Rome's Forum Boarium.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: created connection "Regio XI (Circus Maximus)"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Rab island in the Adriatic Sea.
Creators: M. Šašel Kos; P. Kos
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created OSM location of Rab island
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A Roman arch of the second century A.D. that faced on to the forum of Beneventum.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
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Modifications: add wikidata Q3621766: Arco del Sacramento, Benevento
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Arsinoe/Taucheira (modern Tocra) may have originally been a Greek foundation that was part of Pentapolis of Cyrenaica. It eventually became a Roman colony and, by the time of Justinian, was fortified.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative))
Actors: Tom Elliott

Ayanis (or Ayanıs, now Ağartı Kalesi) is an Urartean fortress and settlement located 35 km north of Van on a rocky outcrop 250 m above Lake Van (1867 m above sea level). It was founded in the 7th century BCE under Rusa, son of Argišti, and was named Rusahinili Eidurukai ("The City of Rusa in front of Mount Eiduru"). Here two inscriptions of Rusa, son of Argišti (7th century BCE), have been found which report that Rusa cultivated the barren land, built the fortress and the city as well as a “tower temple” (“susi temple”) and a “Gate for the God Haldi” (A 12-01 and A 12-09).
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Gabriel Mckee; Noah Kaye; Rune Rattenborg; Tom Elliott
Modifications: modified OSM location of Ağartı (associated modern); modified OSM location of Ayanıs Kalesi (period: Urartian); created OSM location of Ayanıs Kalesi; created name "Ayanıs"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

The ancient city of Babylon began as an Akkadian city-state founded by Amorites in 1894 B.C. The city was also the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 608 to 539 B.C.
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Ryan Horne; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created OSM location of آثار بابل; created CIGS location of Bābīl; created name "Bābīl"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 83 B5 Badais
Creators: D.F. Graf
Contributors: Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Untitled"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Balagrae (modern El Beida or Al Bayda, Libya) was an ancient settlement of Cyrenaica and is perhaps best known for its Asclepium.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative)); created connection "Pentapolis"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A pre-Roman and Romano-British settlement was located at Baldock along the Icknield Way.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: typo; create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created OSM location of Roman Settlement
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 38 B1 Barke
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative))
Actors: Tom Elliott

Berenice was a coastal city of western Cyrenaica, located at modern Benghazi in Libya. Founded in the third century BCE, it replaced the earlier Greek colony of Eusperides, which had been centered a short distance to the northeast. Berenice was named in honor of Berenice of Cyrene, the queen of Ptolemy III Euergetes.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: summary; edited; summary; modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative)); created connection "Pentapolis"; created connection "Euesperides"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources that is identified with the modern site of Tell Baqqaq, a ruined settlement mound located ca. 10 km south of Gir-e pan that is now under water.
Creators: Claudia Horst
Contributors: Andrea Squitieri; Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg
Modifications: created CIGS location of Tall Baqāq; created name "Tall Baqāq"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

Ruins of a church likely built around the fifth century AD, on the summit of the low hill of Sidi Khiribech in Berenike. The character of the building and its position has suggested to some archaeologists a defensive as well as a religious purpose.
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
Modifications: modified connection "Berenice" (Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient Greek city founded in eastern Libya ca. 630 B.C., Cyrene later became part of the Roman empire (ca. 74 B.C.). The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Adam Rabinowitz; Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Michelle Willoughby; Noura Alavi; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; Justin Charlton; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative)); created connection "Pentapolis"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A sanctuary of the god Mercury in the Vosges Mountains.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Ryan Horne
Modifications: created OSM location of Temple du Donon
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient settlement on the east coast of the Red Sea at modern al‑Wajh (Saudi Arabia).
Creators: D.F. Graf
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Untitled"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Euesperides was the westernmost Greek colony of Cyrenaica. The remains of the site are found on the outskirts of modern Benghazi near the north Libyan coast. Under Ptolemy III Euergetes, the new city of Berenice was built a short distance southwest of Euesperides and the original site was subsequently abandoned.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: summary; create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; Zimi 2019; summary; created Imagery Location of Euesperides; created name "Hesperis"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 unlocated Eurykydeion
Creators: G. Reger; J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Triphylia"; created connection "Samikon/Samia"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 91 F5 Girumu
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: Initial revision; created CIGS location of Tall Barguthiat
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

The Ikarian Sea is the southeastern part of the Aegean Sea, extending from Samos to Mykonos.
Creators: C. Foss; G. Reger
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created name "Icarium Mare"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient fortification and associated settlement located on the Rheunikion hill, near the monastery of Euangelistrias (north of modern Aristi in Epirus).
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; place type += fort; summary; title; added Kastrologos reference; cleaned up references; contributors ++ bkiesling; created OSM Location of Kastraki of Agios Minas ; created name "Aristi"; created name "Artsista"; created name "Artista"; created name "Καστράκι Αγίου Μηνά"; created name "Agios Minas"
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 60 F2 ‘Ketia’? Pr.
Creators: G. Reger; J. Bennet
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created GeoNames location of Cape Sitia
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Kition was an ancient city founded on the southern coast of Cyprus in the thirteenth century B.C.
Creators: D. Rupp
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Carolin Johansson; Gabriel Mckee; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created CIGS location of Kition; created name "Kition"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

The Lucus Furrinae or Syrian Sanctuary is a sanctuary site on the Janiculum Hill in Rome. The first known construction at the site took place during the late first century CE and it remained in use until the mid-fourth century CE.
Creators: Lex Ladge; Wenqian Liu
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Thomas Landvatter
Modifications: created name "alsos Erinnuon"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors: Adam Rabinowitz; Brady Kiesling; Danielle Hoyer; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; Danielle Hoyer; Erin Kenner; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created OSM Location of Αρχαία Πέλλα; created name "Colonia Iulia Augusta Pella"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A regional designation: the "five cities" of western Cyrenaica.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Michael Heubel; Ryan Horne; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; Richard Talbert
Modifications: summary; not a people/tribe; place type corrected: this was a region
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 D4 Podalia
Creators: C. Foss; S. Mitchell
Contributors: Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created name "Buyuksoyle"; created name "Sogle"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

The remains of a late Republican bridge near Benevento (in Località Serretelle).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modifications: add vici.org 80431: Ponte Fratto
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Porolissum was a Roman city in Dacia established in A.D. 106. It became the capital of Dacia Porolissensis in A.D. 124.
Creators: J.J. Wilkes
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: created OSM location of Castrum Porolissum
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient capital of Cyrenaica, Ptolemais was probably named after Ptolemy III Euergetes. The city was founded in either the seventh or sixth century BC.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Ryan Horne; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: modified connection "Pentapolis" (part of regional (not administrative))
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 63 unlocated Rastia
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: created connection "Trokmoi"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

The Roman amphitheater of Beneventum dates to the reign of the emperor Nero.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
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Modifications: update references, add wikidata
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A Roman theater of the second century A.D. constructed during the reign of Hadrian.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
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Modifications: add geonames
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A Longobard church in Benevento, Italy, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modifications: update place type, add wikidata
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A church on the Palatine Hill in Rome sacred to Saint Theodore of Amasea dating originally to the sixth century AD.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modifications: add wikidata, geonames
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Ruins of a Hellenistic courtyard house (possibly connected to the adjacent building, known as Area X) in the archaeological site of Sidi Khiribech in Berenike (modern Benghazi).
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: modified connection "Berenice" (Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

The ruins of a house of the early Roman period at the archaeological site of Sidi Khiribech, in Berenike. The house had a courtyard with a peristyle. Some of the internal walls were decorated with frescoes representing the Muses.
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: modified connection "Berenice" (Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

The ruins of an ancient building with a large peristyle, probably built around the second century AD, in the southwest area of the archaeological site of Sidi Khiribech, in Berenike (modern Banghazi).
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: modified connection "Berenice" (Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

The ruins of a small building (possibly first century AD) with a shrine, in the archaeological site of Sidi Khiribech, in Berenike. According to some archaeologists, it might have been connected to the adjacent Area A, and constitute together a single unit. In other interpretations, it is an independent sacred space.
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: modified connection "Berenice" (Initial revision)
Actors: Tom Elliott

Located along the road from Talamone to Cannelle are the archaeological remains of one of the largest maritime villas known in the Albegna valley. Referred to colloquially as Villa le Terme at Santa Francesca di Talamone, the remains of this site can be divided into four sectors: the cistern, in a locality referred to as "Le Tombe", the villa platform (basis villae) and core of the villa referred to as "Le Terme", the cistern in an area known as "Santa Francesca", and the remains of poorly preserved outbuildings.
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: add summary; vici.org; edited; reference Carandini 2002 added; updated Names; created name "Santa Francesca di Talamone - Villa le Terme"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott