Personal tools
@Pleiades in the Fediverse
03 October 2024

Pleiades <-> Wikidata and other gazetteer alignments updated 2024-10-03:

10,689 Wikidata entities include a Pleiades ID property and 3,813 Pleiades entities include a Wikidata ID property. Of these, 3,255 are mutual (bidirectional).

There are 558 Pleiades resources to which Wikidata links can be added after they are checked: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

There are 7,011 Wikidata items to which Pleiades IDs can be added after they are checked: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

03 October 2024

Export Updates 2024-10-03:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 63 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

19909e4d - updated legacy csv
b8d450d9 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
1649ce84 - updated gis package
4705ebcf - updated data quality
a963991a - updated bibliography
d9d32617 - updated indexes

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

678bf5a3 - updated geojson and names index

02 October 2024

Wikidata -> Pleiades and other gazetteer alignments updated 2024-10-02:

10,689 Wikidata entities include a Pleiades ID property (39 more than when last
updated on 2024-09-26).

Always latest version of data in CSV format:
github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

Query used:
github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi

Latest commit hash: cc1422a

02 October 2024

Internet Archive Wayback machine update requests for 2024-10-01 through
2024-10-02.

Attempted: 29
Archived: 27 (2 were already archived)

Status: all current versions of Pleiades place pages and subordinates as of ~6am
US Eastern Time today are thought to be properly reflected in the Wayback
machine.

Code used: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wa

02 October 2024

Export Updates 2024-10-02:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 27 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

530853e3 - updated legacy csv
077c9600 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
a8468ded - updated gis package
e49a745b - updated data quality
eeb6cb1e - updated bibliography
af6c6e3f - updated indexes

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

14cc459f - updated geojson and names index

@Pleiades in the Fediverse - More…
You are here: Home Project news and content updates Pleiades Project Blog Pleiades Updates for 31 March 2022

Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Pleiades Updates for 31 March 2022

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 31, 2022 09:39 AM
tags:
Two recently created and 6 updated place resources have been added to CSV and JSON downloads this morning and will be reflected in the next weekly RDF export (on Sunday).

New/updated place resources:

  • Al-Khawd
    Find-spot of a hoard of metal objects dated to the early Iron Age, located on the campus of Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.
    Place resource created by Gabriel McKee (Pleiades) with additional contributions by Tom Elliott.
    Last modified Mar 24, 2022 08:12 AM
  • Dioscurias/Sebastopolis
    A Greek city established by Miletos ca. 540 B.C. on the site of an earlier second millennium B.C. settlement.
    Place resource created by T. Sinclair and David Braund (BAtlas 87 G2 Dioscurias/Sebastopolis) with additional contributions by DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund and Tom Elliott.
    Last modified Mar 30, 2022 01:29 PM
  • Kimmerikon
    Kimmerikon was an ancient Greek colony in the Crimea located on the Kerch peninsula. The city was founded by Milesian colonists in the fifth century BC.
    Place resource created by David Braund (BAtlas 87 K2 Kimmerikon) with additional contributions by DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund and Tom Elliott.
    Last modified Mar 30, 2022 01:36 PM
  • Kolymbarion Akron
    A promontory on the northeast coast of Sardinia, listed by Ptolemy. Its modern name is Capo Figari.
    Place resource created by S.L. Dyson (BAtlas 48 B2 Kolymbarion Akron) with additional contributions by R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott and Jeffrey Becker.
    Last modified Mar 31, 2022 09:16 AM
  • Myrmekion
    An ancient Greek colony in Crimea. The site is located in the modern eastern part of Kerch, known as Karantinnaya.
    Place resource created by David Braund (BAtlas 87 L2 Myrmekion) with additional contributions by Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel McKee, R. Talbert and Diane Braund.
    Last modified Mar 30, 2022 09:29 AM
  • Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus
    The main city and port of the Kimmerian Bosporus, founded by Miletus in the late seventh or early sixth centuries B.C. Modern Kerch.
    Place resource created by David Braund (BAtlas 87 K2 Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus) with additional contributions by Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel McKee, R. Talbert and Diane Braund.
    Last modified Mar 30, 2022 09:25 AM
  • Ponte di Pratolungo
    Remains of a Roman Republican bridge crossing the Fosso di Pratolungo along the line of the via Tiburtina.
    Place resource created by Jeffrey Becker (Pleiades) with additional contributions by Tom Elliott.
    Last modified Mar 23, 2022 10:36 AM
  • Tyritake
    A coastal settlement founded by Greeks, Tyritake is located about 11 km south of Kerch. The city's foundation dates to the middle of the sixth century BCE, although a Late Bronze Age settlement may have preceded the Greek colonial foundation. The city became a part of the Bosporan state and flourished until the late fourth century CE. It is noted for its circuit of fortification walls.
    Place resource created by David Braund (BAtlas 87 K2 Tyritake) with additional contributions by Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert and Diane Braund.
    Last modified Mar 31, 2022 06:21 AM

Updated downloads:

Related commits to pleiades.datasets (via GitHub):