Last Week in Pleiades (27 June - 4 July 2022)
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Last week we published 25 new place resources. In addition, 90 existing place resources were updated.
New Place Resources
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A settlement located some 40km outside of modern Karachi, Pakistan, dating to the Mature Harappan period. The site was abandoned by the close of the third millennium BCE.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Area in the Altai region of extreme western Mongolia containing a number of burials and other structures from the Bronze Age (Bulan-Kobin Culture), Turkic, and Medieval periods.
Creators: Gabriel McKee
Contributors: -
Iron Age burial site located ni the Pusht-i Kuh region of Luristan.
Creators: Gabriel McKee
Contributors: -
A courtyard building of a non-military nature dating to the later Roman period (second to third century CE) that was located on the seafront at modern Barry (Wales, United Kingdom).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
A well-appointed domus of the mid-second century CE that was consumed by the construction works to create the Thermae Antoninianae, resulting in its being buried to a depth of some 10 m in construction fill. Heritage officials describe the house as a sort of 'condominium', comparing it to the contemporary insulae of Ostia.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: -
Area in the Altai region of extreme western Mongolia containing a number of burials and other structures dated from the Bronze Age and the Turkic Period.
Creators: Gabriel McKee
Contributors: -
A double-ditched enclosure site located to the north of the modern village of Ince (Cheshire, England) has been identified as a Roman fortlet. The enclosure covers some 0.48 ha and was first identified via crop marks seen in aerial photographs in 1994.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
A large rock-cut temple at Sikait in Egypt's Eastern desert.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker -
An archaeological site with Iron Age funerary megaliths located in the vicinity of the modern Moonamkutty-Mangad Road in the northeastern portion of India's Kollam municipality. The site was damaged by cashewnut tree farming and is now not visible due to habitation on the site.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Buddhist temple complex in Swat, Pakistan occupied from the 1st century CE until the end of the 4th-5th centuries CE.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: -
Neolithic tomb located 1km east of the modern village of Paradiimi in Northeastern Greece.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
A small island that is part of the Oinoussai island group, located between Chios and the Ionian peninsula. Is ancient name is unknown.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: -
Capital city built by New Kingdom pharaoh Ramesses II at the modern Egyptian village of Qantir. The site is near the old capital, Avaris.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
Settlement on Crete from the Late Minoan period near Achladia.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
A late Minoan tholos tomb in the area of modern Platyskinos/Platyschino on Crete.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: Zachary Rosalinsky -
A Punic-Roman sanctuary, possibly of Hygieia/Salus or Aesculapius/Eshmun was identified to the northwest of Carthage in the direction of Cape Kamart (Tunisia), mostly on the basis of an assemblage of extremely fragmentary polychromatic terracotta statues, numbering at least 30.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Sanctuary of Hathor built in the Middle Kingdom at Serabit el-Khadim.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient settlement located in Chechnya that is associated with the Koban Culture, an archaeological culture of the northern and central Caucasus. The site was inhabited during the Bronze and Iron Ages (11th-7th centuries BCE).
Creators: Gabriel McKee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker -
A complex of three stone-built structures in the ancient settlement of Sikait in Egypt's Eastern Desert. The structure seems to have served a primarily residential function, certainly during the 4th and 5th centuries CE and (in a previous phase) during an as-yet undetermined earlier period. It may also have had a commercial function.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: -
Burial mound of Sarmatian nobility from the 1st century CE in modern Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine with earlier remains from the Bronze Age. The mound has since been demolished by bulldozer.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: -
Mid-11th to mid-18th century church built on top of an older church that was an important pilgrimage site in Nubia. The church is located in the modern Sudanese village of Banganarti.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Tell in northern Syria first settled in the Early Neolithic, resettled in the Chalcolithic Ubaid period, resettled again in the mid-late Uruk period, and finally resettled again in the Iron Age, from which point the site was continuously inhabited until the early Islamic period. The site was deluged by the creation of Lake Assad in 1974.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: -
A significant, large structure at Sikait in Egypt's Eastern Desert that has been variously identified as an administrative building and, most recently on basis of finds from the first systematic archaeological excavation of the structure, as a temple.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: -
A necropolis at Abydos, Egypt, with royal tombs from the Pre-dynastic period as well as from the Early Dynastic (First and Second dynasties) period.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker -
Cemetery site in northern Cyprus near Kyrenia with Bronze Age remains.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modified Place Resources
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A small, fortified town that served as an outpost for the Ḥaḑramawt kingdom from the first to seventh centuries.
Creators: D.T. Potts
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A fortified island in (or fort alongside) the Euphrates mentioned by Ammianus. Possibly to be identified with the modern island of Bidjan or the city of Haditha in Iraq.
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications:
Actors: -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update title place type reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Aleion Pedion (the Aleian Plain) in Cilicia.
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited; update hdt.
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A settlement located some 40km outside of modern Karachi, Pakistan, dating to the Mature Harappan period. The site was abandoned by the close of the third millennium BCE.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: edit summary, add wikidata, wikipedia references; edited; summary
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
The modern Spanish island of Isla Plana (also known as Isla Nueva Tabarca) is associated by modern scholars with the ancient Alonis.
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 87 D4 Aretias/Areonesos Ins.
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund
Contributors: R. Talbert, Diane Braund, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: add wikipedia, update references; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
The ancient Aegean island of Ascania is associated by modern scholars with an island now known as Christiani. The name Ascania has migrated to a smaller, neighboring island in modern times.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An Aegean island that still carries its ancient name.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 F3 Aulai?
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: tm geo id 8769: aulai
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 94 unlocated Badtina
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update metzler 1977
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Modern Piram island in India's Gulf of Khambhat.
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 D3 Barry
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 94 B4 Borazjan/Taoke?/[Tawwaj]?
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A third century A.D. Roman fort that was part of the Saxon Shore fortification system.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Caister-on-Sea is the site of a third century A.D. Roman coastal fort.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The ancient city of Carthage, located in modern Tunis (Tunisia). Carthage engaged the Roman state in a series of wars conventionally referred to as the Punic Wars by scholars.
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jonathan Prag, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Ingrid Luo
Modifications: added arachne, getty tgn refs.
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Village in the Sidon Hinterland in modern Lebanon inhabited from the Classical period through Late Antiquity, likely built on a sanctuary site in use during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Remains at the site include a Roman temple, a Christian basilica, and five olive oil presses.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel McKee, Tom Elliott
Modifications: fixed typo in summary
Actors: Tom Elliott -
The ancient Ionian island of Dolicha is probably to be associated with the modern, now-landlocked peak known as Koutsilaris in the modern Greek municipality of Mesolongi.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary; summary typo; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
A well-appointed domus of the mid-second century CE that was consumed by the construction works to create the Thermae Antoninianae, resulting in its being buried to a depth of some 10 m in construction fill. Heritage officials describe the house as a sort of 'condominium', comparing it to the contemporary insulae of Ostia.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Modifications: cnxn; edited; place created
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A settlement and harbor located in Ionia on Mt. Mykale in what is now western Turkey.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: dare 28957
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
According to the Historic England registry, a Roman signal station was identified at Goldsborough. This station was part of a system along the cliffs of north-east Yorkshire.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; title; update references, summary
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: S.L. Dyson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: re ref.; update pliny ref.
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The island known as "La Maddalena" is grouped in an archipelago of the same name.
Creators: S.L. Dyson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient island off the northwest coast of Crete, probably to be associated with the Tigani peninsula.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added batldir reference; cleaned up gondicas reference; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 E3 Kalanthia
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references, add tm geo id
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 72 C2 Keryn(e)ia/Keraunia
Creators: D. Rupp
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: add tp, update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 D5 Korydela Ins.
Creators: C. Foss, S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 E3 Lamos
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references, add wikidata, tm geo id
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Located on the north coast of Cyprus 10 km west of Keryneia, Lapethos/Lepethis Phoinikon is known through archaeological remains for the most part. Archaeological evidence shows settlement already in the Late Bronze Age, continuing to the first millennium BCE and beyond. The tradition of Lapethos holds that the kingdom was founded by Praxandros from Lakonia in the Peloponnese.
Creators: D. Rupp
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added tp
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A large rock-cut temple at Sikait in Egypt's Eastern desert.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added summary, updated references; edited; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
In ancient times, the area of the modern Italian port town of Vibo Marina on the Gulf of Saint Euphemia was an island named Leucosia. Artificial port construction began in antiquity and, together with natural processes, has connected Leucosia to the mainland.
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 B4 Magor
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An archaeological site with Iron Age funerary megaliths located in the vicinity of the modern Moonamkutty-Mangad Road in the northeastern portion of India's Kollam municipality. The site was damaged by cashewnut tree farming and is now not visible due to habitation on the site.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
The modern Yassıca Ada.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Modern Miljet island (Croatia)
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary
Actors: Tom Elliott -
A tell known today as "Yumuktepe" is located at modern Mersin in Turkey. Excavations there, beginning in the 20th century, have provided evidence for continuous and/or successive human settlement beginning in the Neolithic period. Scholars believe that the names "Ingirâ" (found in Akkadian sources) and "Anchiale(ia)" (found in Greco-Roman sources) are to be associated with the site.
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott
Modifications: tm geo id 58777: anchiale (yümüktepe)
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Multi-period mining, principally for turquoise, but also for other minerals, was carried out on the Serabit el-Kahdim plateau in the Sinai (modern Egypt).
Creators: D.F. Graf
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient island, likely a component of the modern Tre Scogli Reef off the Libyan coast.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
Monte Coppolo is an ancient settlement usually referred to in archaeological literature by the modern name of the mountain on which it is located in modern Italy's Basilicata region. It is perhaps the site of ancient Lagaria, referred to by Strabo as a fortress (Φρούριον).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: darmc 18642 = related; edited; myers 2018; summary
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Samsun Dağ.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications:
Actors: -
Myriand(r)os was an ancient Phoenician port near modern İskenderun, Turkey.
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert
Modifications: add topostext, tm geo id; wikidata myriandrus (q3869131)
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: D.T. Potts
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edit title, place type
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update title, place type, references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Noviomagus (Noviomagus Cantiacorum) was a Roman settlement located in southeastern Britain near Westminster on Watling Street.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: cnxn; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The largest of the ancient Oinoussai islands, a small group of islands lying between the island of Chios and the Ionian peninsula.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
Ancient sources use the names Olunta and Sollentia variously for the Adriatic island now known as Šolta (Croatia).
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
A promontory of extreme southeastern Sicily.
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: title; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Neolithic tomb located 1km east of the modern village of Paradiimi in Northeastern Greece.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 94 unlocated Parmizzan
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The modern Hekim Adası.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 unlocated Pharaspa
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, E.J. Keall
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Capital city built by New Kingdom pharaoh Ramesses II at the modern Egyptian village of Qantir. The site is near the old capital, Avaris.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: edited; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
Settlement on Crete from the Late Minoan period near Achladia.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: summary
Actors: Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
An island placed by Ptolemy off the coast of the Greater Syrtis, along with Maia and Misynos. The name Pontia is used in the plural by Ps. Skylax to identify all three islands as a group. These islands are identified with modern scholars as prominent parts of the modern Legarah reef (Tre Scogli) off the Libyan coast.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott -
A Punic-Roman sanctuary, possibly of Hygieia/Salus or Aesculapius/Eshmun was identified to the northwest of Carthage in the direction of Cape Kamart (Tunisia), mostly on the basis of an assemblage of extremely fragmentary polychromatic terracotta statues, numbering at least 30.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added marcadé 1965; edit summary
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
The modern Ceyhan river in southern Turkey. Its modern mouth is well to the east of its ancient location, which was to the west of Magarsa and much inland from the modern coast.
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: M. Ballance, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
A Cycladic island just west of Delos in the Aegean Sea. It consists of two parts linked by a narrow isthmus.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: Sean Gillies, nkeay, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, R. Talbert, Noah Kaye
Modifications: update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The Rock Carvings in Tanum is a collection of petroglyphs located near Tanumshede, Bohuslän, Sweden. This heritage landscape is composed of at least 600 rock-cut panels covering an area of some 51 ha (126 acres). Many of the figural motifs are maritime in nature and pertain to the European Bronze Age.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: edited; name; wikidata q1761052: rock carvings in tanum
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Sanctuary of Hathor built in the Middle Kingdom at Serabit el-Khadim.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: added aofe reference; added wikipedia reference; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
Sar Mashhad, located in the Dadin Rural District, Jereh and Baladeh District, Kazerun County, Fars Province, Iran, is the site of a Sasanian rock relief of a lion hunt, along with accompanying inscriptions. The monument dates to the reign of the king Bahram II (r. 274–293 CE).
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: herrmann 1970; place type = monument (remove deprecated place type); tanabe 1990
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
A Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft culture, located in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces in the southeastern part of Iran. The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg
Modifications:
Actors: -
Ancient Senskis, a large settlement in Egypt's Eastern desert on a branch tributary of Wadi Gemal (Wadi Sikait) with archaeological remains dating between the first and sixth centuries CE. The settlement was associated with the mining of emerald (i.e., green beryl) and is one of several in the region.
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Noah Kaye, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added guzmán 2021; contributors += nkaye; darmc 14746 = related; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; wikidata; wikipedia
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
*Silina Inss. (Isles of Scilly) form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
*Sitomagus is a place in Roman Britain that is now unlocated. It seems to have been located in East Anglia, about 30 miles to the south of Caistor St Edmund.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited; steerwood 2003 added; update existing references, add wikipedia reference
Actors: Tom Elliott -
Skolopoeis was a settlement of Ionia. Herodotus notes the presence of a sanctuary sacred to the Eleusinian Demeter. The ancient place was located near Doğanbey in Asiatic Turkey.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: tm geo id 61467: skolopoeis (doğanbey), topostext, hdt.; update references; wikidata q65070176: skolopoeis, wikipedia, summary
Actors: Tom Elliott -
Unlabeled feature captured from the Barrington Atlas
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: edited
Actors: Tom Elliott -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 H2 Stonea
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Mid-11th to mid-18th century church built on top of an older church that was an important pilgrimage site in Nubia. The church is located in the modern Sudanese village of Banganarti.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added wikidata reference; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary
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The modern River Tamar in southwest England.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 A2 *Tamarus fl.
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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The modern Habibas Islands, off the Algerian coast, are probably to be identified with the ancient Tauria island.
Creators: T.W. Potter
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; title
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 D4 Tell Hamidi/[Ta'idu]?
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Gabriel McKee, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Gabriel McKee, Tom Elliott -
A tetrastyle temple dedicated to the god Portunus and dating to the late second century or early first century BC.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Brady Kiesling
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An island located in the Aegean Sea 5 km off the coast of Troas.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Arthur De Graauw, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
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The Thermae Antoninianae, commonly known as the Baths of Caracalla, were built in Rome between AD 212 and 216.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Brady Kiesling
Modifications: cnxn; update refs.
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The archaeological site of Timpone del Ponto in Lucania indicates occupation from the Bronze Age through to the the Hellenistic period. The built fortifications of the Hellenistic period command a narrow point of the Sinni river valley between the hills of Coppola and Colobraro.
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added myers 2018; bkiesling; darmc 19210 = related
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
The modern Dip Burun in Turkey: a coastal promontory opposite the Aegean island of Samos extending from the Mykale mountains.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: ancient ports (de graauw); new pauly reference; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
A necropolis at Abydos, Egypt, with royal tombs from the Pre-dynastic period as well as from the Early Dynastic (First and Second dynasties) period.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: add commons, edit summary; add eaae ref.; edited; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Zachary Rosalinsky -
A monastery founded in late antiquity on the island then known as Lerina/Planasia (modern Île Saint-Honorat, France; BAtlas 16 D2 unnamed monastery)
Creators: S. Loseby, R. Häussler
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 52 G3 unnamed bridge (Iustiniani Pons)
Creators: C. Foss
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient island or island group, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 72 D2 Vounari
Creators: D. Rupp
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 C3 Vounous
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, G. Reger, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added topostext
Actors: Jeffrey Becker -
Cemetery site in northern Cyprus near Kyrenia with Bronze Age remains.
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: title
Actors: Tom Elliott, Zachary Rosalinsky -
The site of a Roman Saxon Shore fort known as "Walton Castle". The fort was built ca. A.D. 276-285 and was destroyed by sea erosion in the eighteenth century.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
The so-called Zaghouan Aqueduct once supplied ancient Carthage with water. The course of the aqueduct carried water from a spring near Ziqua, some 132 km from the city.
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edit title, summary, add wikipedia ref.; edited; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; update references; wikimedia commons
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott -
Zau Taberna? was a maritime village of Cyrenaica, above the Drepanum promontory.
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker