Pleiades Change Log: 2012-06-01 - 2012-06-31

Chatby Necropolis

Understood to be the oldest necropolis in Alexandria that dates back to the Ptolemaic period and is located in the modern Chatby area of Alexandria.
Creators: Iris Fernandez
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Alphe(i)os (river)

The longest river of the Peloponnesus.
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert
Modifications: add lewis & short ref; add reference and improve description; initial revision; roman name
Actors: Sean Gillies

Amman/Philadelpheia

An ancient settlement in northwest Jordan (modern Amman) received a Macedonian settlement and the name of Philadelphia from Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BC). The modern Amman, Jordan.
Creators: S.T. Parker
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, David Mimno, Sarah Bond, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
Modifications: baseline created; corrected erroneous tm geo id.; improved description
Actors: Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott

Arauris (river)

The ancient Hérault River
Creators: S. Loseby
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: improve description, add ref; initial revision
Actors: Sean Gillies

Bethsaida

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 69 C4 Bethsaida?/Iulias?
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown
Contributors: DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert
Modifications: baseline created; initial revision
Actors: Francis Deblauwe

Dion

Dion was a settlement of Pieria located just south of Macedonia and held, traditionally, as the place of Orpheus' death and burial.
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Ryan M. Horne, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt
Modifications: improve description, add pecs ref, connection to its region
Actors: Sean Gillies

Halos

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 55 D2 Halos
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors: DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Robin Iversen Rönnlund, Brady Kiesling, G. Reger, R. Talbert
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Heliopolis/Col. Iulia Augusta Felix

An ancient settlement in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because "with its colossal structures, [it] is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee."
Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
Modifications: baseline created; improved description
Actors: Tom Elliott

Iader

The ancient Roman town of Iader (Iadera), given status of a Roman colony in 48 B.C.
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Roko Rumora, R. Talbert, Neven Jovanovic
Modifications: baseline created; initial revision
Actors: Roko Rumora

Les Vaux de la Celle

An ancient Gallo-Roman sanctuary near modern Genainville (France), with excavated remains of a temple, nymphaeum, and theater: BAtlas 11 B3 Génainville (sic)
Creators: J. Kunow, C. Haselgrove
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: baseline created; fixed a name typo inherited from batlas, note on location of petromantalum.; initial revision
Actors: Tom Elliott

Mareia

Mareia is a Late Antique settlement in Egypt, with remains of harbor and industrial installations, baths, shops, a funerary church, and a large basilica.
Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors: Nicola Aravecchia, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Iris Fernandez, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott
Modifications: added more accurate location entry
Actors: Iris Fernandez

Mediana

An extensive late-Roman villa used as a temporary imperial residence in the suburbs of ancient Naissus. Located in the modern village of Brzi brod, within the municipality of Niš, Serbia (BAtlas 21 E6 Mediana).
Creators: J.J. Wilkes
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Roko Rumora, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: corrected the coordinates of the actual remains.
Actors: Roko Rumora

Petromantulum?/Petromantalum?/Petrum Viaco

An ancient settlement or road station, attested by the Antonine Itineraries and the Peutinger Map, whose precise location is uncertain (BAtlas 11 unlocated Petromantulum/Petrum Viaco).
Creators: J. Kunow, C. Haselgrove
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Modifications: baseline created; detailed notes and additional bibliography on the question of this place's location
Actors: Tom Elliott

Pieria

Originally the territory of the Pieres, later incoporated into Macedonia
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: improve description, add wikipedia + harpers ref, connection; relate to pieres
Actors: Sean Gillies

Sicyon/Demetrias

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 D2 Sicyon/Demetrias
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Modifications: lolos 2011 reference added
Actors: Tom Elliott

Spercheios

A river of central Greece that rises in the Tymfristos mountains. Today it empties into the Malian Gulf some 14km east of its ancient mouth (BAtlas 55 C3 Spercheios fl.).
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors: R. Talbert, G. Reger, Robin Iversen Rönnlund, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: initial revision
Actors: Robin Iversen Rönnlund

Territory of the Pieres

The land where the Pieres, a Thracian tribe, resettled after being driven from Pieria in the 7th century BC
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors: R. Talbert, G. Reger, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Modifications: retitle and improve description, refs, connection
Actors: Sean Gillies

Thebai Phthiotides

A city located nend of the ancient Krokian plain
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, Robin Iversen Rönnlund, Tom Elliott
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