Since Monday, 1 June 2026 the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 8 new and 142 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 8 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize the full preceding two weeks' worth of such work, but meantime, here's a #SneakPeek at a new place resource with an unusual path into Pleiades. Jeffrey Becker ( @serviliusahala ) noticed a short prose discussion in the "Introduction" to Barrington Atlas Map 46 ("Bruttii") in the first volume of the BAtlas Directory: "Lenormant (1881 II, 15) records traces of ancient silver workings at Verzino on a tributary of the R. Neto six miles north‑west of Zinga ..." but no corresponding entry in the associated "Names" table. Because of that omission, no corresponding entry in Pleiades was created during the original programmatic ingest. Jeff has filled the gap, crediting the original compilers: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/636943626

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Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (11 May - 1 June 2026): Over the past three weeks the Pleiades editorial college published 51 new and 593 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, John Muccigrosso, Thomas Seidler, R. Scott Smith, Nicolas Souchon 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-three-weeks-in-pleiades-11-may-1-june-2026

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Since Monday, 11 May 2026, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 51 new and 442 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 13 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize the full preceding two weeks' worth of such work, but meantime, here's a #SneakPeek at a new place resource for modern Kocapınar in Turkey's Van province, authored by Birgit Christiansen in collaboration with Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott. At Kocapınar (known as Hagi/Aği until officially renamed in 1959) a stela with an inscription of the Urartian king Argišti II, son of Rusa (8th / 7th century BCE) was found which reports the creation of an artificial lake in front of Mount Quria.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/742516213

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 15 new and 81 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 8 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at 11 place resources for bath/spa facilities, together with associated features like villas, pools, and springs: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?getFeatureType%3Alist=bath&getFeatureType%3Alist=spring&getFeatureType%3Alist=swimming-pool&modified%3Alist%3Adate=2026%2F05%2F07&modified_usage=range%3Amin&portal_type%3Alist=Place&review_state%3Alist=published

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The Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has refurbished and relaunched their digital map of places mentioned by Hierokles.

https://awmc.unc.edu/maps-for-texts-series/#Hierokles

Over on BlueSky, AWMC Director Gabriel Moss announces:

> Exciting news for folks interested in #LateAntiquity and GIS. AWMC's map of Hierokles' Synekdemos (offline since 2023) has now been refurbished and relaunched. Special thanks to Grace Bell for *lots* of heavy lifting on this project.

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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (4-11 May 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 118 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee, R. Scott Smith 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-4-11-may-2026

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Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 12 new and 20 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 #SneakPeek at one of the new ones. Authored by Gabriel McKee (@SecretTerror), we now have a place for the Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan, the oldest surviving church structure within the boundaries of modern Yerevan, constructed in the late 6th century CE: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375489070

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"Catching up with the daughters of Atlas". #PleiadesGazetteer managing editor Tom Elliott delivered this paper in the Presidential Panel of the Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting 2026 in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, 16 April 2026: https://pleiades.stoa.org/docs/papers-and-presentations/conference-paper-catching-up-with-the-daughters-of-atlas-2026-1/conference-paper-catching-up-with-the-daughters-of-atlas-2026

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