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18 June 2024

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18 June 2024

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Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

9 new and 38 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

a855bd14 - updated legacy csv
aef56ea9 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
fbfb4a36 - updated gis package
60c1abe5 - updated data quality
263e1613 - updated bibliography
46aee9e5 - updated indexes

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

7b0f0fbc - updated geojson and names index

17 June 2024

Export Updates 2024-06-17:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

4 new and 58 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

b27d70f5 - updated legacy csv
a7d8b466 - updated json
506d19f2 - updated rdf/ttl
464996b1 - updated gis package
bae954be - updated data quality
a1bac288 - updated bibliography
aa293b1c - updated indexes

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

1233447b - updated geojson and names index

14 June 2024

Export Updates 2024-06-14:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

1 new and 59 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

e25c7114 - updated legacy csv
c4657f01 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
b76b74e4 - updated gis package
d023f08a - updated data quality
0c2ba0cb - updated bibliography
614ba32f - updated indexes

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

05113436 - updated geojson and names index

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Last Week in Pleiades (3-10 June 2024)

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Last week, the editorial college published 7 new and 166 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Niels Christofferson, Tom Elliott, Andrew Harris, Brady Kiesling, Thomas Landvatter, Chris de Lisle, and Gabriel McKee.
Last Week in Pleiades (3-10 June 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from Europe and North Africa in the west to the northern Indian subcontinent in the east.

New Place Resources

  • Akarçay Tepe Höyük, a settlement of the eighth and seventh millennia BCE located to the east of the Euphrates River in the immediate vicinity of the Syrian border near the Turkish village of Akarçay in the Birecik district of the province of Şanlıurfa. The site lies on the south bank of the Su Deresi stream, which flows west into the Euphrates River.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Chalcolithic to Bronze Age settlement mounded identified in 1989, located on the east bank of the Euphrates River, 75 km southwest of Şanlıurfa. The mound measures ca. 15 meters high and 70 x 60 meters in area.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The so-called House of the Surgeon in Rimini may have been the home of a Roman doctor by the name of Eutyches.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Buddhist monastery and educational center founded during the Gupta Empire (5th century CE). The site was destroyed around 1200 CE. It was located in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The so-called Odeon in ancient Ptolemais.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A monumental bath complex constructed in the 2nd c. CE in modern Varna, ancient Odessus.
    Creators: Andrew Harris; Niels Christofferson
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Thomas Landvatter
  • A Late Archaic peripteral temple in the Doric order with a 6 x 13 columnar arrangement.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

Modified Place Resources