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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 (28 November - 5 December 2022)

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Dec 05, 2022 12:05 PM
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Last week we published 11 new place resources. In addition, 113 existing place resources were updated.

New Place Resources

  • One of three tells (archaeological mounds) located near Dalma in northwestern Iran, the excavation of Agrab Tepe in 1961 yielded Neolithic remains. According to Muscarella (1973), the tell is sited southwest of Hasanlu in the Solduz Valley.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Dalma Tepe is an archeological site located in western Azerbaijan, some 5 km southwest of Ḥasanlū Tepe.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The third tell near Dalma, Iran, that remains unexcavated.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The site of Dinkha Tepe is located in the Ushnu valley of Iranian Azerbaijan. Sir Aurel Stein initially identified second-millennium BCE funereal deposits there. The University of Pennsylvania Museum, under Robert H. Dyson, jr. and Oscar White Muscarella, carried out further excavations in the late 1960s.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A clay pot with about thirty clay tablets was found to the north of the Šamaš Gate at Nineveh, in a secondary context. The archive, whose texts are dated between 669 BC and the fall of Nineveh (612 BC), belonged to Ninurta-šarru-uṣur (“the son of the palace”), as well as to several other people, including some Egyptians. This small archive consists of loan and purchase documents, legal texts, as well as a piece of correspondence.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Jamie Novotny; Tom Elliott
  • Nuraghe Cabudbbene I is a single tower nuraghe built of trachyte.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A Roman villa, identified and initially excavated since 2018, located in the modern district of Rutland (England, United Kingdom), east of Foster's Bridge and southwest of Ketton.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Site on the western bank of Shaytanskoe Lake, Sverdlovsk Oblast, containing remains dated to the early Bronze Age.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • Tell Baqrta, an archaeological site located 28 km south of Erbil, may be the Neo-Assyrian town known as Baqarru.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Island in Lake Turgoyak, Chelyabink Oblast, containing a number of megalithic monuments dated to the Neolithic Period.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • A ruined Romano-British villa located near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, in the valley of the River Purwell.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

Modified Place Resources