Last Week in Pleiades (22 - 29 August 2022)

The Castle of Montalban is a ruined castle located in San Martín de Montalbán, province of Toledo, Spain.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 E3 Ad Flexum
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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The necropolis of Amathus on Cyprus.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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A major Greek city-state and the principal city of Attika. Modern Athens in Greece.
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Chelsea Lee, Jeffrey Becker, Rachaelle L Browning, DARMC, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Alec Mitchell, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, April Kissinger, Eric Shea, Ryan M. Horne, Sterling Wright
Modifications: added reference: mapping ancient athens
Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 59 unlocated Bambideios
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 27 unlocated Barbetium Iugum
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A Byzantine and Ottoman fortification northeast of (and overlooking) the Azyleia/Mytika plain in Acarnania, Greece. Some commentators have supposed an earlier antecedent on the site.
Creators: Tom Elliott
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The Citânia de Briteiros is an archaeological site of the Castro culture located in the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula.
Creators: E.W. Haley
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: create darmc citation to preserve cross-project linkage after retracting darmc location; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Numerous instances of ancient ceramic production have been documented in Buonconvento, Siena.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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An Iron Age Hillfort in Scotland
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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One of two Roman siege camps at Burnswark Hill that flank the Iron Age hillfort. The camps are linked to the campaigns of the Roman commander Quintus Lollius Urbicus ca. 140 CE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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The so-called canal of Xerxes at Nea Rhode dates to the fifth century BCE. It was a navigable canal dug through the base of Mount Athos in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, as part of the invasion of Greece carried out by king Xerxes I of Persia.
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors: G. Reger, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: edited; edited title; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; update references, summary; updated locations; updated uri for livius article
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

The Castle of Montalban is a ruined castle located in San Martín de Montalbán, province of Toledo, Spain.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; name; place created; summary; wikipedia
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A fortified site of the later Byzantine period located at Finale Ligure.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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An area in the Contrada Cellarulo of Benevento that is designated as an archaeological area with evidence for the later phases of ancient Benevento's history.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Dangstetten was the site of a Roman military camp.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
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Actors: Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 25 C2 Deoua fl.
Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; wikipedia
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 F2 ‘Eltavori’ fl.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A Gallo-Roman amphitheater dating to the early third century CE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Tom Elliott
Modifications: added un amphithéâtre à aginnum
Actors: Tom Elliott

A multi-period site with evidence of construction and occupation ranging from the Neolithic to the Medieval periods. An iron age farmstead was replaced by a series of Roman-era constructs, including a late first-century CE masonry establishment, often characterized as a Roman villa (the site is located near the site of Verulanium, modern St. Albans). Renovated in the late second century, the farm declined in the third.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added darmc 20885 as related to maintain resource alignment; added imagery location after plan in neal 1990, which supersedes prior darmc location in baseline; added jashemski 2017; added neal 1990; cleaned up references; removed defunct wyrtig reference; replaced pastscape reference with heritage gateway reference; summary; title; wikidata
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

A town of Caria located 25 km west of Miletos on the Ionian coast, Heraclea was located on the lower slopes of Mt. Latmos. Once a part of the Delian League, the city fell to Mausolos in the fourth century B.C. and his philhellene policy accounts for its change of name.
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Morroni dei Marsi, the remains of two mausolea dating to the Roman period.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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On the small island of modern Kephalos in the Ambracian Gulf, archaeologists discovered a settlement, a pair of Christian basilicas, and other associated structures and small finds. The site may have begun as a refuge settlement in the late fifth / early sixth century CE and seems to have continued in use, possibly with a late monastic function, into the 10th century.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added trismegistos reference; added veikou 2012; added vici.org reference; idai reference; place types; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

A deme of ancient Attica that belonged to the phyle of Acamantis.
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 86 C3 Krentios
Creators: C. Foss
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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The Roman imperial province of Mauretania Tingitana. Located in northwest Africa, the province stretched from the Mulucha river (modern Oued Moulouia in Morocco) westward to the Atlantic.
Creators: J.J. Wilkes, S.T. Parker, R.S. Bagnall, W.V. Harris, A.S. Esmonde-Cleary, C.M. Wells, J.F. Drinkwater, R.C. Knapp, S. Mitchell
Contributors: Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Mary E. Downs, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Pandosia was an ancient city of Lucania, located near Heraclea. It is not to be confused with the site of the same name located in Bruttium. The Medieval settlement of Anglona was the successor to Heraclea.
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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Actors: Jeffrey Becker

The ruins of a Roman bridge located in the Viale Roma, Santa Marinella, Italy.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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The great ancient maritime port of Rome, located on the right-hand bank of the Tiber river.
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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A promontory or cape mentioned by Strabo in his description of coastal northwest Greece. Scholars identify it with modern Akra Skala, Albania.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added batlas location, which supersedes grid square; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

The eleventh region of Rome created under the Augustan administrative division. According to the Regionary catalogues, this region contained 19 shrines (aediculae), 89 townhouses (domūs), 16 warehouses (horrea), 15 bath houses), and 20 fountains).
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A ruined twelfth-century castle located in the Italian comune of Torri in Sabina
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modifications: reference; summary, place type
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

One of two Roman siege camps at Burnswark Hill that flank the Iron Age hillfort. The camps are linked to the campaigns of the Roman commander Quintus Lollius Urbicus ca. 140 CE.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modifications: summary, reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

The Roman theater of Atri.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 B4 Saisaniye
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

The Salutaris Pagus was located near Beneventum and Ligures Baebiani (Circello).
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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A Marian sanctuary located on the hill of Anglona in the province of Matera, Italy, that originates in the eleventh century.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A promontory of the southern coast of Arabia.
Creators: D.T. Potts
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

Tell Chuēra (also known as Tall Dahr ash Shuwayrah), a settlement in northern Syria inhabited from the fourth to third millennia BCE. A small settlement, called Harbe, was built on the site during the Middle Assyrian period.
Creators: Gabriel McKee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added backhaus and helms 2020; added osm accuracy assessment
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 46 D3 unnamed quarry (Temesa)
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: place type = mine; title; update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

An archaeological area in the suburbium of ancient Rome, now in the quartiere Ottavia, with multi-phase evidence for tombs of the Etruscan culture, a segment of a Roman road, and evidence for Roman villas.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Torri in Sabina, a comune located in the Province of Rieti, Lazio, lies some 50 km north of Rome. It may succeed the Roman site of Forum Novum.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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A Roman villa that is typically associated with the emperor Trajan.
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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A small Hellenistic town excavated on the Trypitos promontory E of Siteia, Lasithi Crete. It is probably to be identified with Polichna, attested in ancient literary sources.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added vici.org; cleaned up references
Actors: Tom Elliott

A Roman villa located at modern Ucero in Spain's Soria province (Castilla y León).
Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: summary; title
Actors: Tom Elliott

unnamed canal group (NW Pomptinae Paludes)
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Stephan Maurer, Jeffrey Becker
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An unnamed 5-dam complex dating from the Roman period is located at Melque, to the southwest of Toletum on the Arroyos Las Zorras and Melqar. Visible remains are to be found in the vicinity of the Ermita de Santa María de Melque.
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; summary; update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 27 E2 unnamed canal (along and S R. Millárs (Mijares), W Sebelaci)
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 43 C4 unnamed aqueduct (Torre del Monumento)
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 27 A2 unnamed canal (SW Toletum, E dams at Melque)
Creators: P.O. Spann
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: update references
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A Roman settlement located southwest of modern St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: Nicholas Darbyshire, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, R. Talbert
Modifications: added lockyear 2022; added wikidata refs. x 2; cleaned up references; replaced defunct pastscape reference with heritage gateway reference; summary; updated defunct rbrit reference
Actors: Jeffrey Becker

A street in regio IV, the Vicus Sandalarius ("street of the sandal-makers"), likely was located north-east of the Templum Pacis. The magistri of the Vicus sandalarius dedicated an altar to Augustus in 2 B.C. Augustus also dedicated a statue to Apollo in the same street. In later times many of the city's bookshops were located there.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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In 1834, Edward Dodwell documented a substantial tract of polygonal masonry walling at Bevilacqua near Frascati that was thought to be associated with a Roman villa platform.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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An ancient villa in Guidonia Montecelio, Lazio.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Ruins of a Roman coastal villa located at Acque Fresche in the comune of Civitavecchia.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Described by N.G.L. Hammond writing for PECS as a fortified hill with a "circuit wall ca. 450 m long" near modern Voulista Panagia (Epirus, Greece), this site guarded a gorge leading into Central Epeiros. Hammond identified it with ancient Charadra, but Dakaris (whence BAtlas) prefers an identification with ancient Oropos.
Creators: W.M. Murray
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: added associated modern location which supersedes batlas grid square; cleaned up references; location from osm created by products.pleiadesentity.browser.osm.osmlocationfactory; place types; summary; title
Actors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

An anthropic mound or tell located in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah Governorate.
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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A sanctuary of Zeus in eastern Crete.
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
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