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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 (31 July - 7 August 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new place resources and approved updates to 146 existing place resources.
Last Week in Pleiades (31 July - 7 August 2023)

New Place Resources

  • Ad Palmam was a place in North Africa and is included on the Peutinger map. It is located along the route from a place called Lacene, also unlocated, to Tacape.
    Creators: Richard Talbert
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The Castle of Irulegi is a medieval castle located atop the eponymous mountain, located in the Sierra de Aranguren in the Spanish municipality of Laquidáin. In 1494, Catherine of Navarre ordered the demolition of the castle.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Lacene was a place in North Africa. It is included on the Peutinger map where it is presented as a name without a symbol. Based on the routes on the Peutinger map, Lacene was located between Ad Palmam and Praesidium Silvani.
    Creators: Richard Talbert
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A large-scale building, tentatively identified as a palace, constructed during the 9th century BCE and in use until about 500 CE.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • The Iron Age settlement at Poblado de Irulegui is noted as the findspot of the so-called "Hand of Irulegi", a bronze, hand-shaped artifact dated ca. 80 to 72 BCE. This object carries an important inscription written in the Northeastern Iberian script.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Site of a Roman temple and possible small town near the confluence of the rivers Soar and Trent near Ratclifffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire. Findspot of at least three curse tablets (defixiones).
    Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • The Roman theater of ancient Calama (now Guelma) was built in the early third century CE and substantially restored in the twentieth century.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Architectural remains consistent with a Roman-era villa maritima have been identified on both the north and south sides of a small bay at modern Valbandon in Croatia. Originally thought to represent a single establishment that wrapped the entire bay, more recent interpretations would see two separate architectural complexes.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:

Modified Place Resources