Last Week in Pleiades (30 January - 6 February)

A mosque or madrasa where a stone block with cuneiform inscription was found (and removed) in the 19th Century. The building itself no longer exists.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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Find spot for inscribed Urartian rock artefacts.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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A multi-period group of mounds in central Mesopotamia (modern Al-Warka District of Iraq), by which passes the modern Basra-Baghdad highway (national highway 1). The site lies about 15 kilometers to the north of the modern town of Al-Warka and about 25 kilometers north-northwest of the ancient site of Uruk. It is not to be confused with Banat al-Hassan in Anbar province, northwest of Baghdad.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee; Tom Elliott

Find place for cuneiform inscription.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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Find spot for a Urartian stele.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Tom Elliott

Village where a block with Urartian inscription has been found.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Tom Elliott

Find place for a bronze artifact with Urartian inscription.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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A mountain in Türkiye rising to 176 meters (577 feet) above sea level.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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An elite house in Hadrumetum known especially for its program of polychromatic mosaics dating to the third century CE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Central mound of the modern town of Īzah where artifacts of Elamite date were found in excavations 1976.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Tom Elliott

Burial site in western Mongolia containing a stone cairn and several deer stone monuments, dated to the 8th-7th centuries BCE.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, this settlement (number 100 in Adams 1972) containing remains dated from the Akkadian through Larsa periods.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee; Tom Elliott

Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, this settlement (number 130 in Adams 1972) contains remains dated from the Jemet Nasr through Akkadian periods.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee; Tom Elliott

Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, this settlement (number 131 in Adams 1972) contained remains dated to the Early Dynastic I-Old Babylonian periods (chiefly Ur III-Larsa). The site also contains a number of burials from the Parthian period, fragments of Sasanian pottery, and the remains of an Early Islamic structure.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee; Tom Elliott

Ritual complex in central Mongolia consisting of eight deer stone monuments surrounded by nine stone rings and several cairns.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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A group of ashlar buildings at the city center, identified by excavators as civic buildings.
Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Kyle Conrau-Lewis; Tom Elliott
Modifications: cleaned up James reference; edit typo in summary; Initial revision
Actors: Anne Chen; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Ayanis (or Ayanıs, now Ağartı Kalesi) is an Urartean fortress and settlement located 35 km north of Van on a rocky outcrop 250 m above Lake Van (1867 m above sea level). It was founded in the 7th century BCE under Rusa, son of Argišti, and was named Rusahinili Eidurukai ("The City of Rusa in front of Mount Eiduru"). Here two inscriptions of Rusa, son of Argišti (7th century BCE), have been found which report that Rusa cultivated the barren land, built the fortress and the city as well as a “tower temple” (“susi temple”) and a “Gate for the God Haldi” (A 12-01 and A 12-09).
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Gabriel Mckee; Noah Kaye; Rune Rattenborg; Tom Elliott
Modifications: created CIGS location of Ayanıs
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

Large mound with citadel in the plain of Shahrizor, occupied from Early Bronze Age to modern time.
Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Karen Rubinson; Tom Elliott
Modifications: edited; fixed typo in summary
Actors: Tom Elliott

Balāwāt is the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Imgur-Enlil. A place from the TAVO Index.
Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer; H. Kopp; W. Röllig
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott
Modifications: created CIGS location of Balāwāt; modified name "Balāwāt" (Initial revision); modified name "Balawat" (Initial revision); modified name "Balāwāt" (edited); created name "Balāwāt"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

Başbulak/Bulakbaşı/Kanî Kewang is situated near Taşburun in the Kars province in eastern Turkey. Here a stone block with an inscription of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) was found, in which he claims to have built the building to which the stone block belonged. Furthermore, Minua states that he has built a fortress at this place and given it the name "Minuahinili". In Roman times, the locality was known as Paracata.
Creators: M. Roaf; S.E. Kroll; St J. Simpson; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Birgit Christiansen; Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: references provided by cjohansson; title; summary; += fort, findspot; created CIGS location of Başbulak; created OSM location of Bulakbaşı; created name "Başbulak"; created name "Kanî Kewang"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

The modern Bingöl Dağları is an extinct shield volcano located to the northeast of modern Bingöl in Turkey, lying between the modern settlements of Karlıova, Tekman, Hınıs, and Varto. The mountain was known in Roman times by the name "Abos".
Creators: M. Roaf; S.E. Kroll; St J. Simpson; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Birgit Christiansen; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert
Modifications: added geological references; title; summary; cleaned up references; created OSM Location of Bingöl Caldera; created OSM Location of Bingöl Caldera; created location "Plan approximate footprint"; created location "Plan approximate footprint"; modified name "Abos" (greek, strabo); modified name "Bingöl Dağ" (20th century); created name "Bingöl Dağ"; created name "Bingöl Dağları"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 92 C2 Bisutun/Bagistana/Vastan?/Baptana
Creators: A. Hausleiter; E.J. Keall; M. Roaf
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created CIGS location of Bīsutūn; created name "Bīsutūn"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An ancient city of Sumer southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates. Modern Birs Nimrūd in Iraq.
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; B. Siewert-Mayer; DARMC; H. Kopp; R. Talbert; W. Röllig
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; edited; created CIGS location of Birs Nimrūd; created name "Birs Nimrūd"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 E2 Cymiza/*Balaleisa/‘Balouos’
Creators: M. Roaf; S.E. Kroll; St J. Simpson; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Eric Kansa; Francis Deblauwe; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; B. Siewert-Mayer; DARMC; H. Kopp; R. Talbert; W. Röllig
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created OSM location of Bitlis; created CIGS location of Bitlis; created name "Bitlis"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An ancient city of Asia Minor (modern Dülük in Turkey).
Creators: P.-L. Gatier; T. Sinclair
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Gabriel Bodard; Jeffrey Becker; Phoebe Acheson; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; Valeria Vitale; DARMC; M. Ballance; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: edited; Blömer 2022; update references; created OSM location of Doliche; created connection "Dülük Baba Tepesi"
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources that is identified with modern Tell Bderi.
Creators: Claudia Horst
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Jamie Novotny; Rune Rattenborg; Tom Elliott
Modifications: created CIGS location of Tall Budayrī; created name "Tall Budayrī"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An unlocated toponym on BAtlas 27 (2)
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: cleaned up references
Actors: Tom Elliott

An unlocated toponym on BAtlas 27 (1)
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: cleaned up references
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 E3 Emirzeli
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: Daniel C Browning Jr; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created GPS Location of Emirzeli
Actors: Daniel C. Browning Jr.; Tom Elliott

An ancient city of northwest Anatolia with occupation ranging from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. Troy features as the central setting of Homer's Iliad.
Creators: C. Foss; G. Reger; S. Mitchell
Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Johan Åhlfeldt; Jeffrey Becker; Pierre Motylewicz; Stefano Costa; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: Becks 2022
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Lake in the southwestern Konya Plain; ancient name unknown.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Noah Kaye
Modifications: edited; edited; edited
Actors: Noah Kaye

The Domus Marmeniae is a villa located on the Via Appia near the fourth milestone. The villa grounds hosted a pagan necropolis and tradition holds that the matrona, Marmenia, relocated the body of St. Urban to a mausoleum built on the grounds.
Creators: L. Quilici; S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: Coarelli 2007
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 28 unlocated Mauritania Egel
Creators: M. Euzennat
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 F3 Monte Cila
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: Fontana and Bernard 2023
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Archaeological excavations on the area of the summit of Monte Saraceno have documented the remains of an imposing, fortified high-altitude settlement which has a second walled area within it.
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; summary; Scocca et al. 2015; update references; created OSM location of Cercemaggiore, Fortificazione sannitica
Actors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, these small settlements represented by a series of scattered mounds a kilometer in length (collectively numbered 134 in Adams 1972) contain remains dated to the Parthian, Sassanian, and Islamic periods.
Creators: A. Hausleiter; M. Roaf; R. Wenke; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Gabriel Mckee; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; P. Flensted Jensen; R. Talbert
Modifications: edited; created name "Banāt al-Hassan"; created connection "Banāt al-Hassan"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

Two rock reliefs with inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II were engraved in the Wadi esh-Sharbin, about 2 km southwest of the modern Lebanese town Brissa (also called Braïssé, Brisa).
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Tom Elliott
Modifications: modified CIGS location of Brīṣā Inscriptions (edited); created CIGS location of Brīṣā Inscriptions; created name "Brīṣā"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An ancient Oscan center delimited by a megalithic fortification wall.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: edited
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; R. Talbert; R. Warner
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Archaeological site on the eastern bank of the Euphrates in northern Syria. The site contains a town dated to the Early Bronze Age III-IVA (mid-3rd millennium BCE), as well as a Roman sanctuary used only briefly from about the late 1st-late 2nd century CE. The western part of the site was flooded by the construction of the Tischrin Dam in 1999. Tall Bazi and the nearby site of Banat have been tentatively identified as the city of Armi/Armium mentioned in texts from Ebla.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Tom Elliott
Modifications: combined redundant wikidata entries; title; references (cjohansson); place type += fort; created CIGS location of Tall Bāzy; created name "Tall Bāzy"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 D3 Tapureli
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors: Daniel C Browning Jr; Jeffrey Becker; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: add wikipedia Tapureli ruins; created OSM location of Tapureli ruins
Actors: Daniel C. Browning Jr.; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 91 G3 Tell Baradan
Creators: M. Roaf; St J. Simpson
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg; Sean Gillies; Tom Elliott; DARMC; R. Talbert
Modifications: create DARMC citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting DARMC location; created CIGS location of Tall Baradān; created name "Tall Baradān"
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott

Vosgepag was the Armenian name for a small village near Van in eastern Turkey (now officially called Beşçatak in Turkish). In its church, a reused building inscription of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) was found.
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors: Carolin Johansson; Jeffrey Becker; Rune Rattenborg; Tom Elliott
Modifications: created CIGS location of Beşçatak
Actors: Carolin Johansson; Tom Elliott