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Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 January 2025)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 437 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee and John Muccigrosso.
Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 January 2025)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map covers most of Europe, Central and South Asia, and Africa.

New Place Resources

  • Alba Fucens Aqueduct
    The Alba Fucens Aqueduct is a Roman aqueduct dating from the later first century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Allerona
    Allerona is an Italian town in the province of Terni (Umbria). It is the findspot of a Trajanic milestone.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Ashen Hill Barrows
    The Ashen Hill Barrow Cemetery is located in Somerset, England. These barrows are the most northerly of the sites in this area. The cemetery consists of six bowl barrows and two bell barrows that are aligned on an east-to-west axis.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Capanna dell’Elceto
    The so-called Capanna dell’Elceto was part of a fortified Protovillanovan settlement located near Monte Rovello, Italy.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Clearbury Ring
    A univallate Iron Age hillfort.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Coesike West temporary camps
    A sequence of temporary camps located south of the vallum associated with Hadrian's Wall.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Greek Theater of Antiphellos
    The Greek Theater of Antiphellos dates to the Hellenistic period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
  • Haltwhistle Burn Temporary Camp 4
    The archaeological remains of Haltwhistle Burn Temporary Camp 4 are visible as a standing earthwork.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
  • Mahalibeh Castle
    Mahalibeh Castle in Syria dates to the 11th century. The castle was surrendered to al-Zahir Ghazi, the son of Saladin, by 1194.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Mastaba of Khentika
    The Mastaba of Khentika at Qila ad-Babba near Balat in ad-Dakhla depression, Egypt, dates from the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Khentika was a wealthy official and served as the governor of the Dakhla Oasis during the reign of Pharaoh Pepi II, (2284 – ca. 2216 BCE).
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Portchester Castle
    An eleventh-century castle was built on the site of the Roman fort known as Portus Adurni. Portchester Castle is located at Portchester, to the east of Fareham in Hampshire, England.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Posto villa
    The so-called "Posto villa" at Francolise was located in the ancient Ager Falernus of Campania. Its remains lie 500 meters from the so-called "San Rocco" villa. This was a small villa rustica whose incipit comes ca. 100 BC.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Priddy Nine Barrows
    The place known as Priddy Nine Barrows is a collection of round barrows, dating from the Bronze Age located near Priddy in Somerset, England.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Qila' el-Dabba
    An Old Kingdom cemetery located in the Dakhla Oasis, Balat, Egypt, that contains the tombs of royal officials who governed the area of the oasis.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Rota
    What would become Medieval Rota was once a pagus of Etruscan Caere. Writing in PECS, Mario Torelli describes this an an important Archaic center in the area of Tolfa.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Rukhaegarh
    Settlement site near Nalanda, Bihar District, India, containing remains dated from the Northern Black Polished Ware period through the early Medieval period.
    Creators: Gabriel McKee
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Schola Xanthi
    The Schola Xanthi was likely the seat of the scribae, praecones, and librarii of the curule aediles. A dedicatory inscription names Bebryx Aug. lib. Drusianus and A. Fabius Xanthus as those responsible for erecting the structure during the principate of Tiberius. There was a subsequent renovation in the third century. The Schola Xanthi is thought to correspond with a structure excavated in 1539 on the clivus Capitolinus between the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Arch of Tiberius. The archaeological remains do not survive.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Seleukeia on the Euphrates and the Royal Canal
    A city in Babylonia on the Euphrates, mentioned in Babylonian texts of the third century BC and possibly to be identified with Sippar.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Stari Grad Plain
    The Stari Grad Plain is located on the island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea. This cultural landscape is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due, in part, to its pristine state of preservation, which dates back to the time of Greek colonization by Paros in the fourth century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Temple of Liber Pater at Sabratha
    A Temple of Liber Pater at Sabratha that dates to the Iulio-Claudian period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott

Updated Place Resources