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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 (6-13 November 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 236 updated place resources, reflecting work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Mark Krier, Gabriel McKee, D.T. Potts, Rune Rattenborg, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and R. Talbert.
Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 November 2023)

A map of Europe, northern Africa, and Asia, centered on the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea. Orange "plus sign" icons indicate updated place resources and bright pink dots indicate new place resources.

New Place Resources

  • Find place for cuneiform inscription, possibly ancient KI.KAL.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • The ancient theater of Maroneia was constructed in the Hellenistic period and later remodeled in the Roman period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Walled city established as the capital city of the Khmer Empire during the late 12th century CE by Jayavarman VII. The city was abandoned by 1609.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A Romano-British villa with an octagonal bathhouse was documented at Bax Farm.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A temple in the Khmer capital of Angkor Thom, constructed in the late 12th or early 13th century CE.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • A karstic cave located near Porto Badisco in southern Apulia, Italy, the so-called Grotta dei Cervi was first discovered in 1970. The cave system, although not completely documented, contains a wealth of parietal art and pictograms dating to the late Neolithic and Eneolithic periods, ca. 6000 to 5000 years BP.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • In the Grotta delle Veneri, human occupation can be documented from the Mousterian Age until the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Grotta Romanelli (Lecce, Southern Italy) is a karstic cave in a coastal position that was occupied by humans beginning in the Middle Pleistocene period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The ancient theater at Magarsus.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A pre-Aksumite and Aksumite settlement located in what is now southern Eritrea, possibly to be identified as the Koloe mentioned in a Roman imperial source. Qohaito has been submitted by Eritrea for consideration as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Mark Krier; Sean Gillies; D.T. Potts; R. Talbert
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors:
  • A Roman auxiliary fort was identified via cropmarks in Kellington, Selby, England, United Kingdom.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • The Roman Bath House, Castleford, consists of the now-buried archaeological remains of a Roman military bath house that was built in the mid to late AD 80s. The site was excavated in 1978. The ancient bath was situated within the site of a former defensible annex that was constructed to the north of Castleford Roman fort.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Khmer temple at Angkor constructed in 1186 CE under Jayavarman VII.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • The ancient theater of Tios.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

Modified Place Resources