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16 September 2024

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Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

8 new and 58 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

940227a2 - updated legacy csv
4fdb4f1f - updated json
e1d5298a - updated rdf/ttl
9a2e017f - updated gis package
10ea7fc6 - updated data quality
516b214d - updated bibliography
2a2d3720 - updated indexes

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

5b96b3b6 - updated geojson and names index

16 September 2024

Newly added to the Pleiades Zotero library and quick-lookup reference tool:

Cicero, Orationes (ed. Clark, text at PHI):

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Orationes. Edited by Albert Curtis Clark and William Peterson. 6 vols. Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1905.

latin.packhum.org/canon#a474.

zotero.org/groups/2533/items/B

13 September 2024

Export Updates 2024-09-13:
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1 new and 17 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

a803de94 - updated legacy csv
2a0332b0 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
1ecdb91d - updated gis package
2fcc02e2 - updated data quality
46009430 - updated bibliography
084b6450 - updated indexes

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

95f4b403 - updated geojson and names index

12 September 2024

Wikidata -> Pleiades gazetteer alignments updated 2024-09-12:

10,573 Wikidata entities include a Pleiades ID property (28 more than when last
updated on 2024-09-05).

Always latest version in CSV format:
github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

Latest commit hash: 4df25c8

12 September 2024

Export Updates 2024-09-12:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

1 new and 31 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

aef915f1 - updated legacy csv
15997e96 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
67e77e86 - updated gis package
17a95fd2 - updated data quality
1e2faf1b - updated bibliography
879a12ac - updated indexes

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

6e075011 - updated geojson and names index

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Last week we published 15 new place resources. In addition, 136 existing place resources were updated.

New Place Resources

  • The so-called Arch of Caracalla at Theveste is a tetrapylon arch dating to the third century. Originally dedicated to the deified Septimius Severus with Julia Domna and Caracalla, the arch was repurposed and modified to function as a gate in the Byzantine city wall.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Tell in Eastern Romania with evidence of habitation in the Gumelnitean and La Tene periods.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • 9th-7th centuries BCE Iron Age cemetery site near modern Eyvanki in Iran. The excavated site comprises 56 stone-lined tombs, 9 pit graves, and 1 pithos grave.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A celtiberian settlement located just south of modern Berrueco in Spain's Zaragoza province.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Iron Age cemetery site located west of modern Eyvanki in Iran.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Eneolithic and early Bronze Age burial ground in the Northwest Caucasus with about 40 mounds located 3km northwest of Tsarskaya.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • The Roman villa rustica of La Befa is positioned at the point where the Torrente di Crevoli joins the river Ombrone. Excavation of the site identified a northern sector and a southern sector, both with multiple architectural phases, likely beginning the later first century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Small, remote mountain peak in Tajikistan with a castle used in the 7th-8th centuries CE as a refuge by the Sogdian rulers of Panjakent. The site was the source of a major find of Sogdian documents.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A bridge over the Oued Cherchira in Tunisia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A small island that is part of the Oinoussai island group, located between Chios and the Ionian peninsula. Its ancient name is unknown.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Burial ground with four mounds from the early Sarmatian period. The site is located near the modern town Prokhorovka in Orenberg Oblast, Russia.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • One of the largest Chalcolithic settlements in Israel located 1km east of Mizad Aluf in the northern Negev desert. The site was later occupied in the Byzantine period.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • Area with 17 Early Iron Age mounds located near the modern village Tarasovo and the Kama river in Russia's Udmurtia state. All mounds had settlements except Tarasov I, which was the location of a religious sanctuary and cemetery. The site has been partially destroyed by oil digging in the area.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Nubian Cemetery site along the Nile in use in the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. The site was inundated by the creation of the Aswan Dam.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • Cemetery in modern Turkey's Manisa province with remains from the Early Bronze Age. This is the typesite for the Yortan archaeological culture.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

Modified Place Resources