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Last Week in Pleiades (28 August - 4 September 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new place resources and approved updates to 85 existing place resources. Work by Erin Walcek Averett, Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anne Chen, Niels Christoffersen, Peter Cobb, Tom Elliott, Jonathan Fu, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Thomas Landvatter, Ingrid Luo, Gabriel Moss, Gifford Quinn, Rune Rattenborg, R. Scott Smith, and Scott Vanderbilt.
Last Week in Pleiades (28 August - 4 September 2023)

New Place Resources

  • The Roman Amphitheater of Sbeitla.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Roman signal station of the "Gask ridge" type was located 1.5 miles southeast of Appleby-in-Westmorland.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The fortification wall of the Late Roman fortified palace compound at Gamzigrad-Romuliana, commissioned by Emperor Caius Valerius Galerius Maximianus, in the late third and early fourth centuries.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A large and minimally excavated site that lies under the modern Aquisgrana industrial park in the eastern part of the city of La Carolina in Spain's Jaén province. Evidence indicates a temporal span for the site from at least the first century BCE to the late first century CE. The site may have served as a central foundry for metallic ore extracted from mines in and around La Carolina and Cerro del Plomo.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A fundus located near Marruvium (San Benedetto dei Marsi).
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Kinvaston Fort, a Roman vexillation fort located near the point where the Watling Street crossed the River Penk. The fort was discovered via air photos in 1946.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Remains of a Romano-British corridor villa at Little Milton, some 8 miles south-east of Oxford, observed via cropmarks.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A complex quarry landscape near Karystos, heavily exploited especially in Roman times, for highly prized Cipollino Verde (marmor Carystium).
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The Port antique de Marseille is the oldest exposed portion of the city's ancient port, located in the Jardin des Vestiges archaeological park and containing remains from the 6th c. BCE through the 4th c. CE.
    Creators: Gifford Quinn; Niels Christoffersen
    Contributors: Thomas Landvatter
  • Settlement mound from Assyrian times, with medieval ruins.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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  • A pyramid, originally approximately 23m in height, built by the fourth dynasty pharaoh Snefru. The function of the pyramid, which seems to have lacked an interior chamber, is uncertain.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The "Shamiram canal", also referred to as the "Semiramis canal", is located to the east of Van, Turkey, and runs for some 45 miles to Lake Van. On the basis of epigraphic evidence, its original construction is attributed to King Menua of Urartu.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • An auxiliary fort located just to the north of Watling Street.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A Roman bridge on the Rio Murtazzolu near Birori, Sardinia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The so-called Villa di Grotte di Piastra, ruins of a Roman villa at Castelporziano.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modified Place Resources