Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 March 2026)
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 89 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, Gethin Rees, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon, Richard Talbert, Valeria Vitale and Enes Yılandiloğlu.
A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from England in the north to the middle Nile and from the Canary Islands in the west to northern Afghanistan in the east.
New Place Resources
- Ballicaoluk
Fortified site constructed on hill on the eastern slope of Nif Mountain in Turkey's İzmir province. The primary structures at the site were likely constructed during the Hellenistic period, though it contained remains indicating earlier use in the Geometric-Archaic periods and through the Byzantine period.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Barna
A place in Mesopotamia listed by GeogRav. Its nature and location remain unknown.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Bicum
A place in Mesopotamia listed by GeogRav. Its nature and location remain unknown. It may be equatable (thus RE) with a "Vicus" shown on the Peutinger map.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Boxted Roman villa
A Roman villa excavated in the late 1880s and dating from the late first century CE to the late second century at Boxted, Upchurch, United Kingdom
Creators: Maxime Guénette
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Bozköy-Hanaytepe
A settlement mound and archaeological site located in the Troad containing evidence of habitation from the Chalcolithic through the Late Bronze Ages.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee
Published by: Gabriel Mckee - Cassiterides
An unlocatable group of islands somewhere off the Atlantic European coast, said by ancient authors to be a source of tin. This name may constitute an early, vague generalization concerning multiple islands and coastal areas of Gaul and Britain.
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott - Cephalos
An unlocatable city in the Taphian islands, named after Cephalus
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott - Ḥaḳala
A village in today's Amasya, Turkey. According to Mehmed Neşrî (Vol. 1, pp. 374-9 (1949)), Kara Devletşah, a commander in the Timurid Sultanate, stayed in this village and was defeated here or nearby by Bayezid I.
Creators: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Heleios
An unlocatable city in the Taphian islands, named after Heleus.
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott - Karabel Pass
A mountain pass on the southern side of mount Nif in Turkey's İzmir province.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Karabel Reliefs
A monument consisting of multiple Hittite rock reliefs with Luwian inscriptions, probably dating to the 13th century BCE, located in the Karabel pass on the southern slopes of Mount Nif in Turkey's Izmir province. Most of the reliefs and inscriptions known to western scholars from the 19th and 20th centuries have been lost to road construction and vandalism.
Creators: Tom Elliott
Published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Lichades Islands
An island group off North Euboea, Greece. Near the Malian Gulf.
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, Jeffrey Becker
Published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Paleochristian basilica at Vravrona
An early Christian basilica located west of ancient Brauron in Attica.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Brady Kiesling
Published by: Tom Elliott - Pottenbrunn burial ground
Burial site near modern Pottenbrunn, Austria, containing 43 burials dated to the Roman period.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Sanahin Monastery
Monastery complex in northern Armenia constructed during the 10th century CE.
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Published by: Jeffrey Becker - Temple of Artemis (Aulis)
Archaic temple to Artemis at Aulis, Boeotia. In mythology, said to be the place of death of Iphigenia. Mentioned in Euripides' 'Iphigenia at Aulis.'
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott - The Sanctuary of the Nymph Ionides
Healing spring described by Pausanias on the Kytherios River, in Salmone, Elis
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: R. Scott Smith, Brady Kiesling, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - The Tomb of Protesilaus
Tomb of the mythic figure Protesilaus, first to die in the Tojan War. Located according to ancient testimonty on the Chersonesus, near Elaeus, its precise location is not known today.
Creators: Anika Campbell
Contributors: R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott - Umbilicus urbis Romae
The remains of a monument marking the symbolic navel of the city of Rome that dates to the reign of Septimius Severus.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Brady Kiesling
Published by: Tom Elliott - Vicus
A place in Mesopotamia listed on the Peutinger map. Its nature and location remain unknown. It may be equatable (thus RE) with a "Bicum" listed in the GeogRav.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Published by: Tom Elliott
Updated Place Resources
- Ad Mercurium?
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 32 F3 Ad Mercurium?
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: RB Hitchner
Contributors: R Warner, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - *Agruvium
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 20 F7 *Agruvium
Modifications: Updated references. Created new name.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: M Šašel Kos, P Kos
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Agyrium
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 F3 Agyrium
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Valeria Vitale
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: RJA Wilson
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jonathan Prag, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert, Greta Hawes - Aigeira
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 C1 Aigeira
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: G Reger, J McK Camp II
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne - Ainea
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 unlocated Ainea
Modifications: Created new connection. Added citation detail to Cook reference.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: C Foss, G Reger, S Mitchell
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott - Altamura
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 E3 Altamura
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: IEM Edlund Berry, AM Small
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Amantia
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 B3 Amantia
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Scott Smith, Maxime Guénette, Richard Talbert, Greta Hawes - Ambracia
Ambracia (modern Arta) was an ancient city of central Greece, founded as a colony of Corinth in the seventh century BCE. It was located near the Ambracian Gulf along the course of the river Arachthos.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Gethin Rees, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: WM Murray
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, Richard Talbert, Gethin Rees, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Chris de Lisle - Antaiopolis/Tkoou
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 77 F3 Antaiopolis/Tkoou
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Nicolas Souchon
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: M Drew Bear
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, Richard Talbert, Nicolas Souchon, Mark Depauw - Anthemusia?
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 G3 Anthemusia?
Modifications: Updated references. Edited.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: T Sinclair, P-L Gatier
Contributors: M Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Richard Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, R Warner, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne - Astigi/Col. Augusta Firma
Now the modern Ecija on the Genil river, Astigi was the capital of one of the four conventus of Baetica and became an Augustan colony after 27 B.C.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: FH Stanley Jr, RC Knapp
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R Warner, Richard Talbert, Enes Yılandiloğlu, María Jesús Redondo - Belevi Mausoleum
A monumental Hellenistic tomb located at the modern Turkish village of Belevi (11km northeast of ancient Ephesus). The tomb may have been prepared for either Antigonus Monophthalmus or Lysimachus. The Seleucid king Antiochus II Theos may have been buried there subsequently.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: C Foss, G Reger
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Bouthoe
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 A1 Bouthoe
Modifications: Manto 11325491: Bouthoe (Illyria), Pliny. EDH Geographic Database G007022: Buthoe – Budva. Created new name.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Braughing
A small Roman settlement near Ermine Street and Stane Street was established in the second half of the first century CE at Braughing, United Kingdom.
Modifications: Edited description; added wikdiata, dare, vici references; complete zotero fetch for references Maxime Guénette.
Modified by: Maxime Guénette
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: AS Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Maxime Guénette, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Calpe (mountain)
The Rock of Gibraltar.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: FH Stanley Jr, RC Knapp
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Cathedral of St. James, Jerusalem
A 12th-century Armenian church in Jerusalem, the principal church of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Gabriel Mckee, Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott - Chabina (river)
The Chabina flumen is named in the inscribed Severan dedication for a Roman bridge over the modern Cendere river at Burmapınar in Turkey's Adıyaman province. BAtlas applies the name heading both downstream (joining the Kâhta) all the way to the Euphrates and upstream, parting from the Cendere near the village of Çarhanek to follow the Birimşe up to its headwaters in the Malatya Dağları.
Modifications: Modified summary; removed RE reference that seems to have been a total fabrication; cleaned up TM reference and linked to Zotero; cleaned up reference for Leaning 1971, connected to Zotero, and -> see also; linked IGLSyr reference to digitized version at Persee and -> evidence; expanded BAtlas reference to include both relevant maps; edited Tom Elliott. Latin, modified name attested form, evidence reference Tom Elliott. Created new location. Created new name. Fixed typo in modified summary. Changed name type to 'associated modern'.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: T Sinclair, P-L Gatier
Contributors: M Ballance, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Charadros
Polybius thus names a river in Epirus where the Aphas (modern Louros) must be meant.
Modifications: Cleaned up references; removed pro forma BAtlas reference and added BAtlDir reference; modified summary; modified place type = river and false; polybius uri Tom Elliott.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: WM Murray
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Daiara/Thiara
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 G3 Daiara/Thiara
Modifications: Cleaned up references; added GeogRav reference. Created new connection. Updated references. Created new name.
Modified and published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Creators: T Sinclair, P-L Gatier
Contributors: M Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R Warner, Richard Talbert - Diospolis Magna/Thebai
Diospolis Magna/Thebai was known in ancient Egypt as Waset, "City of the Sceptre". The site was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Modifications: Spelling correction of the name in Egyptian transliteration by Nicolas Souchon. Created new name.
Modified by: Nicolas Souchon, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: T Wilfong, SE Sidebotham, J Keenan
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, H Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B Siewert-Mayer, Nicolas Souchon, Mark Depauw, Richard Talbert, Adam Prins, W Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Roko Rumora, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa - Doclea
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 B1 Doclea
Modifications: Reimported full way geometry and updated provenance.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - *Egerica
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 F1 *Egerica
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Elaion (mountain)
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 unlocated Elaion M.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: G Reger, J McK Camp II
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Endirudini
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 20 F7 Endirudini
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: M Šašel Kos, P Kos
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan M. Horne, Richard Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Erisyche
An ancient literary tradition, seemingly based on a single vague passage in Alcman and subsequently embroidered with mythological implications, places a people (Erisychaioi) and/or a polis (Erisyche) in Acarnania. Freitag, whence BAtlDir, rejects this tradition as fictional.
Modifications: Cleaned up references; removed pro forma BAtlas reference and added BAtlDir reference; modified summary; modified place type = false; modified place type += fictional Tom Elliott.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: WM Murray
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott - Euagina/Phoubagina
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 63 unlocated Euagina/Phoubagina
Modifications: Added Latin name and TP reference by Jeffrey Becker.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: S Mitchell
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Fortunatae Insulae (Canary Islands)
The "Blessed Islands", equivalent in most ancient literature to the modern Canary Islands (Islas Canarias).
Modifications: Ctype = located in.
Modified and published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: Richard Talbert, Brian Z Lund, Mary E Downs, M Joann McDaniel
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Ryan M. Horne, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Sean Gillies - Gerros (river)
The Molochna River is a river of south Ukraine that flows from Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine, to the Azov Sea.
Modifications: Reimported full relation geometry and updated provenance.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: David Braund
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Diane Braund, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Gre Fılla
Gre Fılla is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period site located in Turkey's Diyarbakır Province. The site has been compared to Göbekli Tepe in some respects. Gre Fılla has produced evidence of very early copper working.
Modifications: Added Ekinbaş Can 2025.
Modified and published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott - Hadrianopolis
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 54 B2 Hadrianopolis
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: WM Murray
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Harran/Carrhae
A major settlement of Upper Mesopotamia from the Bronze Age onward. The earliest mentions of the site are found in the Ebla tablets (ca. 2300 B.C.). Notably, the location of the Battle of Carrhae between the Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in 53 B.C., which proved to be a devastating defeat for the Romans. Modern-day Ḥarrān, Turkey.
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: T Sinclair, P-L Gatier
Contributors: M Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R Warner, Richard Talbert, Ingrid Luo, Chris de Lisle - Hermon (mountain)
Hermon M. (Mount Hermon)
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: EM Meyers, JP Brown
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Hieron (Byzantion)
A sanctuary that was sacred to Poseidon and Zeus Ourios located at the Black Sea mouth.
Modifications: Manto 11299120: the Sanctuary of Poseidon Enalios (Pontos).
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Ickleton
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 H2 Ickleton
Modifications: Edited Wikidata reference; added vici.org and DARE references; cleaned up other references.
Modified and published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: AS Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott - Karthaia
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 G2 Karthaia
Modifications: Pliny.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: G Reger, J McK Camp II
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Khusti Qishlaq
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 99 D3 Khusti Qishlaq
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: FT Hiebert, PL Kohl
Contributors: DARMC, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies - Krenides/Philippi/Col. Augusta Iulia Philippensis
An ancient city founded as Philippi by the king of Macedon, Philip II of Macedon on the site of the Thasian colony of Krinides.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: EN Borza
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, G Reger, Richard Talbert - Kyparissēeis
Κυπαρισσήεις (masculine) is an unlocated ancient settlement of Elis said by Strabo (8.3.25) to be uninhabited in his day and to have been near "old Makistia" (περὶ τὴν πρότερον Μακιστίαν; also unlocated). He regards it as distinct from another Kyparissia in Triphylia in Elis (8.3.22; also unlocated), as well as a better-known one in Messenia (modern Kyparissia; 8.3.25).
Modifications: Strabo reference -> evidence; modified summary and modified title; replaced pro forma BAtlas reference with accurate BAtlDir reference; converted originally imported name to BAtlDir label; edited Tom Elliott. Created new connection. Created new name.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: G Reger, J McK Camp II
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Lacotena
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 H1 Lacotena
Modifications: Latin, modified name attested form, evidence from ItAnt and Ammianus. Tom Elliott.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: T Sinclair, P-L Gatier
Contributors: DARMC, M Ballance, Richard Talbert, R Warner, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott - Lebedos/Ptolemais
An ancient city of Ionia, located on and behind the modern Kisik peninsula in the Turkish municipality of Mersin Alanı Mahallesi (Izmir Province).
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: C Foss, G Reger
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Londinium/Augusta
Roman London was established ca. A.D. 43.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: AS Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Richard Talbert, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Maeotis
Maeotis, known in antiquity as a lake, is the modern Sea of Azov and is the shallowest of the world's seas.
Modifications: Updated references. TM GEO ID 12371: Maiotis (Sea of Azov).
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: David Braund
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Diane Braund, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Makaria
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 59 D2 Makaria
Modifications: Reimported full node geometry and updated provenance.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: JS Traill
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Maliacus Sinus
Maliacus Sinus (Malian Gulf) is a gulf of the Aegean Sea in eastern central Greece. The gulf is located in the region of Phthiotis.
Modifications: Manto 11327039: the Malian Gulf (C. Greece).
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: J Fossey, J Morin
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, G Reger, R. Scott Smith, Perry Scalfano, Greta Hawes - Marianus (mountain range)
The modern Sierra Morena mountain range in Spain.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: PO Spann
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, R Warner, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Maşat Höyük
A Bronze Age Hittite center ca. 100 km east of Boğazkale/Hattusa.
Modifications: Edited.
Modified and published by: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Gabriel Mckee, Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg - Memphis
A city and capital of Ancient Egypt that remained an important center for most of Egyptian history.
Modifications: Spelling correction of the name in Egyptian transliteration by Nicolas Souchon.
Modified by: Nicolas Souchon
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: R Müller Wollermann
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Iris Fernandez, H Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, Richard Talbert, Adam Prins, W Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jonathan Fu, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa, Nicolas Souchon, Chris de Lisle - Messapeai
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 unlocated Messapeai
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: G Reger, J McK Camp II
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott - Miletopolitis/Apolloniatis/Artynia (lake)
A freshwater lake in the vicinity of Bursa, Turkey.
Modifications: Created new name. Modified title. Removed BAtlas suffix for lake (L). Language: Greek.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: C Foss
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Monte Pruno
A settlement of the Oenotrians and the Lucani dating to the seventh through third centuries B.C. Its ancient name is unknown.
Modifications: Topostext, wikidata. Reimported full way geometry and updated provenance. Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: IEM Edlund Berry, AM Small
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Mostene
An ancient city of Lydia in Asia Minor is attested in literature and by coinage and inscriptions found at multiple locations. Its precise location is not known. BAtlas tentatively placed it (with a hollow symbol) "near [modern] Sancaklıbozköy". NPauly summarizes suggestions more broadly: "the eastern foot of Mount Sipylus near modern Çobanisa or Sancaklıboz or to the south of Thyateira or c. 40 km to the east of Magnesia [3] (modern Asartepe near Urganlı)"
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss, G Reger, S Mitchell
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Nicaea
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 16 D2 Nicaea
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: S Loseby, R Häussler
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Nif/Olympos? (mountain)
A mountain in modern Turkey's İzmir province that was probably known as "Olympos" in antiquity.
Modifications: Modified summary; cleaned up references; links in modified details; wikidata Mount Nif (Q6922413) Tom Elliott. Manto 11296706: Mount Olympos (Mysia). Created new location. Created new name.
Modified by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss, G Reger, S Mitchell
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott - Ninguaria (island)
Known today as Tenerife, this is the largest of the Canary islands.
Modifications: Ctype = part of (topographic). Created new location. Wikidata Tenerife (Q40846). Updated Pliny.
Modified and published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Ryan M. Horne
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies - Ogygia/Calypsus (island)
Ogygia/Calypsus Insula, an island associated with the goddess Calypso.
Modifications: Added MANTO entity under 'see further'; added 'Associated with the goddess Calypso' to modified summary; edited Anika Campbell manto = Related. Added Latin name, Pliny reference; time = R; by Jeffrey Becker. Added Latin name, Pliny reference; by Jeffrey Becker.
Modified by: Anika Campbell, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: IEM Edlund Berry, AM Small
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Anika Campbell, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Olcinium/Vicinium
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 B2 Olcinium/Vicinium
Modifications: Manto, pliny. Added Latin name, Pliny reference. Created new name.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Olpe
Possibly a false place, per BAtlDir.
Modifications: Removed pro forma BAtlas reference and added BAtlDir reference; modified place type = false; modified summary Tom Elliott.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: WM Murray
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Olympus (mountain)
Ulu Dağ.
Modifications: Fixed inversion of modified name romanized and modified name attested forms in data fields. Created new name.
Modified by: Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: C Foss
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Oretum
Oretum was a tributary city of the Oretani that was a part of the conventus of Carthago Nova, according to Pliny the Elder.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: PO Spann
Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Richard Talbert, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott - Pegaseum Stagnum
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 61 E1 Pegaseum Stagnum
Modifications: Added Latin name, Pliny reference.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss, G Reger
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Phanaroia
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 87 B4 Phanaroia
Modifications: Created new name. Wikidata, topostext.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: T Sinclair, David Braund
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Richard Talbert, Diane Braund, Ryan M. Horne, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Philippopolis/Trimontium
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 22 B6 Philippopolis/Trimontium
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: AG Poulter
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Martina Filosa, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Pons Chabinae
A Roman bridge across the Cendere Çayı that lies west of Arsameia pros Nymphaio (modern Eskikale in Turkey's Adıyaman Province).
Modifications: Created new connection. Reimported full way geometry and updated provenance. Removed RE reference that seems to have been a total fabrication; cleaned up references; linked IGLSyr citation to digital copy in Persee. Added Livius.org and Following Hadrian references. Added vici.org reference. Created new name.
Modified and published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Creators: T Sinclair, P-L Gatier
Contributors: M Ballance, Richard Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R Warner, Sean Gillies - Psophis
Stephanus, in the context of his entry for the well-attested Psophis in Arcadia, places a separate "polis Psophis he palaia" in Acarnania. Oberhummer (whence RE and BAtlDir) is inclined to reject this assertion, which presumably follows a lost literary tradition accessible to Stephanus as a "mythographer's error".
Modifications: Cleaned up and linked StByz reference; removed pro forma BAtlas reference and added BAtlDir reference; cleaned up references; modified summary; modified place type += fictional; added RE reference Tom Elliott.
Modified by: Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: WM Murray
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Rhizon/Risinium
A city on the Adriatic coast of Dalmatia with a protected harbor.
Modifications: Updated references. Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: M Šašel Kos, P Kos
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Rhombites Megas (river)
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 84 D2 Rhombites Megas fl.
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: David Braund
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Diane Braund, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - S. Zion, Mon./Pharroa
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 C5 S. Zion, Mon./Pharroa
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss, S Mitchell
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Sais
Sais was an ancient Egyptian town located in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile River. It served as the provincial capital of Sap-Meh, the fifth nome of Lower Egypt, and became a capital during the Twenty-fourth Dynasty (ca. 732–720 BC) as well as during the Late Period. Herodotus claimed that Osiris was buried at Sais. Other Greek authors, including Plato, maintained a connection between Sais and the goddess Athena.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Nicolas Souchon, Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: A Bernand
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, Richard Talbert, Nicolas Souchon, Jonathan Fu - Salmydessos (coastal region)
A coastal region on the southwest littoral of the Black Sea, south and east of the ancient settlement of Salmydessos (modern Midye/Kıyıköy).
Modifications: Manto 10055486: the Sea of Salmydessos (Pontos).
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss
Contributors: Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Richard Talbert, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne - Sanctuary of Athena Itonia
A pan-thessaliote sanctuary, located at modern Philia Karditsis in Greece.
Modifications: Created new name. Edited. Publish externally.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: J Fossey, J Morin
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Robin Iversen Rönnlund, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, G Reger, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Chris de Lisle - Saticula
Saticula was a Samnite site in Campania that received a Latin colony in 313 B.C.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: N Purcell
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott - Selinousia (lake)
A wetland in the neighborhood of Ephesos, mentioned by Strabo, from which the temple of Artemis derived income. Modern scholars identify it with the modern Lake Gebekirse.
Modifications: Created new location. Added Lytle 2012 and Wallace 2014; cleaned up and linked RE reference (though it references a proposed RE article that evidently was never included in the encyclopedia); added Strabo reference; modified summary; added GeoNames reference via Wikidata Tom Elliott. -> label in BAtlas Tom Elliott. Created new name.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: C Foss, G Reger
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Selinus
A Greek colonial city located on the southern coast of Sicily, Selinus was said to have been founded as a colony of the city of Megara Hyblaia.
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: RJA Wilson
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Richard Talbert, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Eric Canales, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jackson N Miller, Erin Dooley, Lewin Ernest Staine, Jonathan Prag, R. Scott Smith, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Chris de Lisle - Sepulcrum Statiliorum
A columbarium tomb of the slaves and freedmen of the Statilii, and of M. Statilius Taurus, consul in A.D. 44.
Modifications: Type, reference. Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Sean Gillies - Serdica
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 21 F7 Serdica
Modifications: Reference by Jeffrey Becker.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Sirenes/Seirenoussai (islands)
Sirenes/Seirenoussai Inss. (modern Le Sirenuse or Li Galli) is an archipelago off the Amalfi Coast of Italy. In Greek mythology, the islands were home to the Sirens who tempted sailors, including Odysseus.
Modifications: Reimported full way geometry and updated provenance.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: N Purcell
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Arthur De Graauw, Perry Scalfano, Tom Elliott - Sparata
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 49 F1 Sparata
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: JJ Wilkes
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Tabard Square Temple Complex
A Romano-Celtic temple complex located near the junction of Stane Street and Watling Street in modern Southwark.
Modifications: Added Wikidata reference; changed type for sanctuary by Maxime Guénette.
Modified by: Maxime Guénette
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Maxime Guénette - Taranta
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 64 E3 Taranta
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: TB Mitford
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Temple of Athena Lindia
A Doric temple dating ca. 300 BC located on the acropolis of Lindos. The sanctuary stands above a grotto that likely housed the earlier phases of the cult. The amphiprostyle temple has an elongated floor plan and measures 7.75 x 21.65 m.
Modifications: Added MANTO entity under 'see further'; updated references Anika Campbell.
Modified by: Anika Campbell
Modifications published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Anika Campbell, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Temple of Hera at Foce del Sele
A sanctuary at the mouth of the Sele river in Italy with an octastyle temple dedicated to the Argive Hera.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: IEM Edlund Berry, AM Small
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Thusuros
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 34 G4 Thusuros
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: EWB Fentress
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu - Thymbra
Thymbra was a place in the Troad. It is most famous as the site of the sanctuary known as the Thymbraeum, a site sacred to Apollo Thymbraeus. In the Trojan War cycle, this is the place where Achilles reportedly ambushed and killed the Trojan prince Troilus. The nature of the site and its location are debated in the ancient sources. It was said to be located along the Thymbrios River, a tributary of the Scamander. It is referred to as a polis only by Stephanus of Byzantium. Other authors, including Strabo, use the term tópos or pedíon to describe Thymbra. It may be that Thymbra should be associated with an archaeological site south of Akçaköy, at least according to Cook.
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: C Foss, G Reger, S Mitchell
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott - Unnamed centuriation
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 17 F3 unnamed centuriation (W Morginnum)
Modifications: Created new connection.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: E Bertrand
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker - Vaticanus Mons
A hill located across the Tiber from Rome's traditional seven hills, the Vaticanus Mons now lies within the territory of Vatican City.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Vulci
Vulci (originally Velch or Velx in Etruscan) was an Etruscan city 80 km northwest of Rome. Vulci was one of the duodecim populi Etruriae.
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: WV Harris
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Zattara
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 31 H4 Zattara
Modifications: Created new name.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: EWB Fentress
Contributors: DARMC, Richard Talbert, R Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott - Zerynthos
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 51 F4 Zerynthos
Modifications: Updated references.
Modified and published by: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: EN Borza
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Richard Talbert, G Reger, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes - Zyrmis
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 22 unlocated Zyrmis
Modifications: Added Latin name and TP reference by Jeffrey Becker.
Modified by: Jeffrey Becker
Modifications published by: Tom Elliott
Creators: AG Poulter
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker