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10 April 2026

Since Monday, the editorial college published 4 new and 83 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 7 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a at one of the new ones. Authored by Jeffrey Becker, we now have a place resource for the Santuario rupestre di Silvano, a rock-cut sanctuary of Silvanus at Terracina: pleiades.stoa.org/places/34600

10 April 2026

Export Updates 2026-04-10:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

3 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

289b230c - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
d8e4b408 - updated gis package
164fa6e3 - updated data quality
baf1a901 - updated bibliography
9da0a2e9 - updated indexes
no change: sidebar

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

ec456fdc - updated geojson and names index

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

84c232bd - updated pleiades wikidata

09 April 2026

Export Updates 2026-04-09:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

17 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

966e5db6 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
0887e23c - updated gis package
4b88f86d - updated data quality
bd8430d9 - updated bibliography
3079bb62 - updated indexes
fcf8c9fa - updated sidebar

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

1084dc48 - updated geojson and names index

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

c6aac44d - updated pleiades wikidata

08 April 2026

Export Updates 2026-04-08:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 19 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

5e2cabdc - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
no change: gis package
3488e82d - updated data quality
70f03e22 - updated bibliography
09aed5b4 - updated indexes
c686ca7b - updated sidebar

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

c5803a98 - updated geojson and names index

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

661e9207 - updated pleiades wikidata

07 April 2026

Export Updates 2026-04-07:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 51 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

86dca4af - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
7ceeb7f0 - updated gis package
605f0e07 - updated data quality
b7d774d3 - updated bibliography
564cf9b7 - updated indexes
e65ddaae - updated sidebar

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

1b64dee4 - updated geojson and names index

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

8a3428d6 - updated pleiades wikidata

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by Tom Elliott last modified Aug 05, 2025 05:24 PM
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