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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 (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