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Last Week in Pleiades (8-15 April 2024)

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In the last week, the Pleiades editorial college has published 10 new and 150 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Clifflena Tiah.
Last Week in Pleiades (8-15 April 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from the British isles and Pyrenees mountains in the northwest to the Gulf of Aden in the southeast.

New Place Resources

  • The Basilica of St. Achillios at Larissa is an early Byzantine basilica dedicated to the city's patron saint, St. Achillios. The site was discovered and excavated in 1978.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A shrine sacred to Hathor connected with the Egyptian mining settlement that was extracting copper in the Timna Valley.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A rural sanctuary, probably of Artemis, located about a kilometer north-northwest of modern Aigies in Laconia. It is surely to be associated with ancient Aigiai, which was located less than two kilometers to the southwest.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • A sanctuary in Athens, dedicated to the hero Akamas, son of Theseus, which served as the central place for the tribe Akamantis. The findspot of an inscription in Plateia Devaki, Kallithea may indicate the sanctuary's location.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • A sanctuary of the healing heroes Amynos and Asklepios, located between the Pnyx and the Areopagos in Athens. Archaeological evidence stretches from the 4th century BC until the Roman Imperial period.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • The second ancient theater at Larisa dates to the first century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Site 34 (“Slaves' Hill”) was an Iron Age copper smelting site in the Timna Valley. The peak of productive activity occurred in the tenth century BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Tel Batash, an archaeological site located in the Sorek Valley of modern Israel, lies northwest of Beit Shemesh. This site has been identified as the ancient Timnath or Timnah, a Philistine city in Canaan.
    Creators: Clifflena Tiah
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A sanctuary dedicated to Kronos and Rhea in the area of the Olympieion in Athens, attested from Classical times into the Roman Imperial period. A 2nd-century AD Doric temple is probably associated with it.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • The tomb of Psenosiris, identified in a tomb inscription as the Mayor of Athribis, is a rock-cut shaft tomb with a richly-decorated burial chamber. The tomb was constructed in the necropolis of Athribis in the middle of the first century CE (ca. 37-54 CE).
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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Modified Place Resources