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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 (4-11 September 2023)

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 9 new place resources and approved updates to 149 existing place resources. Work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Stephan Maurer, Colin McCaffrey, David Meadows, John Muccigrosso, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (4-11 September 2023)

New Place Resources

  • The ancient theater of Carthaea.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A large (300 acres), multiperiod (Old Kingdom through late Roman) cemetery located just beyond the arable land of the eastern Fayoum in Egypt. It likely served the nearby ancient settlements of Tanis, Philadelphia, and Selia.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A Doric-order temple, hexastyle in antis (23.20x11.10 m). The building utilizes stone from both Aegina and Paros.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Roman-style settlement at modern El Burgo de Ebro, located on the south bank of the Ebro rivier, southeast of Zaragoza, Spain. The settlement appears to have been founded in the second century BCE and permanently destroyed in the first century, likely during the Sertorian War (82-72 BCE).
    Creators: John Muccigrosso; Tom Elliott; David Meadows
    Contributors:
  • A Mycenaean necropolis with elaborate chamber tombs located north of modern Elateia, Phthiotida, Greece.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • The site of a Roman fort and an adjacent settlement is located on a terrace south of the River Ure to the west of Boroughbridge. The Roman fort was identified via geophysical survey and test excavations.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Late-roman fortifications at Le Mans (France).
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • A Doric-order temple with a hexastyle in antis plan measuring 31.15x16.05 m. According to Mazarakis-Ainian, the cella is divided into two parts by means of an axial colonnade. The altar stood at the east front of the temple.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Ruins of a villa rustica, located south of modern Brombach in Baden-Württemberg.
    Creators: Stephan Maurer
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

Modified Place Resources