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06 February 2026

Export Updates 2026-02-06:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

125 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

daf9ad25 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
bb7f4ab1 - updated gis package
a80c70b6 - updated data quality
db1f507b - updated bibliography
4c7387d0 - updated indexes
934db182 - updated sidebar

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

fd313123 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

da34fd95 - updated pleiades wikidata

05 February 2026

There was an overnight outage of map functionality on the due to something going wrong during a mapbox credential update. The missing credential has been replaced and the maps are now functioning again. Apologies for the outage.

05 February 2026

Export Updates 2026-02-05:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

18 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

fd0f0beb - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
804fb014 - updated gis package
a0354b01 - updated data quality
4dc1b8c1 - updated bibliography
c6081cfc - updated indexes
088fe066 - updated sidebar

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

3d46b783 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

37f56934 - updated pleiades wikidata

04 February 2026

New in the place/feature type vocabulary: "palaestra"

A palaestra as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: "Ancient Greek or Roman buildings for training in wrestling or other athletic endeavors. Palaestrae were often part of public gymnasia, although some functioned independently. The floorplan of palaestrae was standardized, usually comprising a rectangular court surrounded by colonnades with adjoining rooms devoted to activities such as undressing, bathing, socializing, observation, instruction, and storage."

pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies

04 February 2026

New in the place/feature type vocabulary: "lesche"

A lesche as defined in Wikidata: "ancient Greek council house or clubhouse"

pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 3 new and 320 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Gabriel Mckee, R. Scott Smith and Enes Yılandiloğlu.
Last Week in Pleiades (5-12 January 2026)

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from the British isles in the north to the Horn of Africa in the south and from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to coastal China in the east.

New Place Resources

  • Asomata
    Burial site located southeast of Mount Vermion. The site was primarily used during the Archaic period (mid 6th-early 5th centuries BCE), with additional burials through the late Classical-early Hellenistic period and some additional signs of earlier human activity from the Middle Neolithic period through the Bronze Age. Rescue excavations were conducted on the site in 2000-2002 during the construction of the Egnatia Highway.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Peqi'in Cave
    Cave located near the modern village of al-Buqei'a, used as a burial site in the late Chalcolithic period.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Salat Tepe
    Archaeological site in the upper Tigris region inhabited in the early Bronze Age.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker

Updated Place Resources