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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 (27 February - 6 March 2023)

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 27 new place resources and approved updates to 228 existing place resources.
Last Week in Pleiades (27 February - 6 March 2023)

New Place Resources

  • Alanya Castle is a thirteenth century fortification built on the site of Korakesion.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A copper-smelting slag heap located in the village of Argaka in western Cyprus (Paphos district), dating between the third and eighth centuries CE and likely derived from ore mined at Limni.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Find spot for a stone with Urartian inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Settlement inhabited from the middle-late Chalcolithic to the Urartian Kingdom in the middle Iron Age. The site is located on the southwest slope linking Mount Ağrı with the Doğubayazıt Plain in Eastern Turkey. Bozkurt comprises a complex of sites, including one mound, two cemeteries, two fortresses, and an outpost-road station.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • Hittite city.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • Find place for a Urartian stele.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Minor settlement in Upper Syrian Euphrates.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • Find spot for a Urartian stela, a mosque in the village Çelebibağı.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • Chogha Bonut is an archaeological site located in the Khuzistan Province of Iran. It lies approximately 5km to the west of Chogha Mish. The tell was the site of a settlement of the Elamite civilization and was settled by ca. 7200 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Large mound in the middle of Shahabad-e Gharb (Islamabad) in Western Iran, possibly ancient Palum.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • A prehistoric settlement and Greco-Roman era necropolis underlying the modern city of Lipari, with burials dating from the bronze age through the Roman period.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • The ruinous remains of a dolmen-type tomb, its tumulus no longer extant, are located on the same axis as the Tusson tumuli.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Monastery of Gelati was founded in 1106 in western Georgia. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • At Grand Lagneux, a small village in the French commune of Yenne, a rescue excavation in 2020 revealed part of a Roman-era bathing establishment. The excavated site is now buried under a modern home. This find constitutes another possible locality in the commune for attested ancient name "Etanna".
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A mausoleum near Cillium dates to the second century CE. Tiberius Flavius Secundus built the family tomb, dedicating it to his father, and inscribing two poetic texts totaling some 110 lines on its facade. Located in what is now Kasserine, Tunisia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The archaeological site at Le Peu (Charente) dates originally to the mid-fifth millennium BCE and preserves evidence of a fortified Middle Neolithic settlement with timber structures. The ditch and palisade fortifications and the timber structures represent the earliest evidence of such architecture in Atlantic Europe. The fortified site is located close to the monumental Tusson tumuli.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • An archaeological site in La Playa de la Calera on the south coast of the Isla de Lobos in the northeast Canary Islands that has produced Roman imperial pottery and evidence of Muricidae mollusk processing for purple dye extraction.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Two adjacent funerary landscapes located south of modern Senorbì on the island of Sardinia, with burials ranging from the 6th century BCE to the 6th century CE.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Palace at Ebla dated to the early Bronze Age (24th century BCE), built atop the remains of an older palace (designated G2). Palace G, destroyed around 2300 BCE, contained an extensive archive of clay tablets.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • A copper-smelting slag heap located in the village of Pelathousa in western Cyprus, dating to the 4th-6th century CE and likely derived from ore mined at the Limni mine, which is approximately 1 kilometer to the northwest.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • An Iberian settlement at the modern town of Puente Tablas (Jaén, Andalucia), with initial settlement in the late Bronze Age that continued until the 4th century BCE. The site was reoccupied during the Islamic period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A coastal fortified settlement dating to the late Bronze and early Iron Ages, known in modern times as Castro de Cociñadoiro and A Punta de Muros. The site was excavated ahead of its complete destruction in the first decade of the 21st century as part of the development of the Porto Exterior da Coruña at Punta Langosteira.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Early to late bronze age town and citadel, ancient name was probably Armium or Armanum.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • Babylonian site where find of cuneiform inscription has been made.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Settlement site between the villages of Takhtidziri and Dvani in the Kareli Municipality of Georgia. The site has late-Achaemenid-Early Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic-Early Roman period cemeteries. This settlement has largely been washed away by flooding of the River Prone.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • Group of kassite mounds, some of which have been completely obliterated or covered by residential buildings.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • An assemblage of four Middle Neolithic tumuli located in the territory of the commune of Tusson in the French department of Charente. The four tumuli are known colloquially as "tumulus de la Justice", "le Petit Dognon", "le Gros Dognon", and "le Vieux Breuil".
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

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