Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 26 new and 207 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 12 people. The 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 ones. Authored by Tom Elliott (@[email protected]) and Divya Kumar-Dumas, we now have a place resource for Mamallapuram, an ancient settlement and modern town located on the east coast of peninsular India. It is the site of a large complex of Hindu temples dating to the 7th/8th centuries CE that is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/119192778.

The city is mentioned in Tamil literature beginning in the 8th century CE. The exact location of the city's harbor and its possible identification with non-Tamil sources (especially Roman ones) remain inconclusive.

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Here's a highlight from today's "Last Week in Pleiades": the Aequimelium, which "may have once been the site of the house of one Spurius Maelius, a Roman citizen of the fifth century BCE who was slain for the crime of wanting to be a king": https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/646121066

Check out the full list of this week's updates and debuts -- the work of 12 contributors and editors -- on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-23-30-march-2026

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (23-30 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 34 new and 154 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Mattia D’Acri, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Maria Del Rocio Da Riva Muñoz, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-23-30-march-2026

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 21 new and 50 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one user's contributions over the past few months (and continuing). Since joining the Pleiades team in 2025, Enes Yılandiloğlu has provided 488 new name entries for existing place resources (mostly in Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, and pre-19th century English), as well as 9 entirely new place resources.

Names: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Creator=enesy&portal_type%3Alist=Name&review_state%3Alist=published

Places: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Creator=enesy&portal_type%3Alist=Place&review_state%3Alist=published

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (16-23 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 108 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, John Muccigrosso, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-16-23-march-2026

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 20 new and 89 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 13 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of them. Authored by Gabriel Mckee (@SecretTerror), we now have a place resource for Ballicaoluk, a fortified site constructed on hill on the eastern slope of Nif Mountain in Turkey's İzmir province: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/818747000

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (9-16 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 89 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, Gethin Rees, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon, Richard Talbert, Valeria Vitale and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-9-16-march-2026

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Bonus #PleiadesGazetteer #SneakPeek for a new place resource for the #Hittite Karabel Reliefs with #Luwian inscriptions on mount Nif, east of modern Smyrna. Grateful shout-outs to Pleiades contributors @nehemie (whose 2025 article "Metamorphoses of a Monument" in the European Journal of Archaeology provided valuable info and has been encoded as a reference in the resource) and @diffendale (whose 2013 photos of the surviving relief on Flickr are now tagged and showing up in the Pleiades "photos" portlet on that page).

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 15 new and 41 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at an update to a place resource originally derived from a Barrington Atlas feature. Tom Elliott has recently worked on the entry for the Chabina river, a tributary of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey whose course incorporated portions of three drainages that are differently named today: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658430

Among the updates: detailed modern geometry from OpenStreetMap and modern toponyms sourced from the BAtlas directory and other sources. References have been cleaned, and a link added for the IGLSyr reference to the digitized copy at Persée, whence the Latin name. A connection has also been made to the record for the Cendere Bridge, findspot of the inscriptions.

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Hey lazyweb friends, have any of you made or seen a viewshed analysis from/to Nemrut Dag? TIA

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