Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 5 new and 62 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. he usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of the new additions. Authored by first-time contributor Maria Del Rocio Da Riva Muñoz, we now have a place resource for the Akītu of Šarrat-Nippuri, a temple in Babylon, not located, but probably not far from Eḫursagtila (a temple of the god Ninurta, which was as located in the Šuanna district, i.e., modern Ishin Aswad): https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/138926703

The attached map image depicts (in blue) two central location points for ancient Babylon, (in orange) a "representative point" calculated between those two locations), and ("bowtie" icons in green) representative locations of all of the other mappable places in Pleiades located "at" or "in" Babylon.

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Export Updates 2026-03-05:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 9 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

67097e03 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
df0354af - updated gis package
28103fbb - updated data quality
463d1548 - updated bibliography
d504fd55 - updated indexes
8b62727f - updated sidebar

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

574f58d6 - updated geojson and names index

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

d4d29b66 - updated pleiades wikidata

Export Updates 2026-03-03:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

3 new and 38 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

2b27ae68 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
581deff3 - updated gis package
b4fd0630 - updated data quality
d988b686 - updated bibliography
35046170 - updated indexes
c4f991d0 - updated sidebar

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

4694a5d8 - updated geojson and names index

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

2e629b77 - updated pleiades wikidata