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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (6-13 April 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 153 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, John Muccigrosso, 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-6-13-april-2026

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Tom Elliott 3d ago

I've got a new batch of #PleiadesGazetteer stickers in hand! I'm looking forward to giving some out next Thursday in Iowa City where I'm participating in a panel at the annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians. My title is: "Catching up with the daughters of Atlas: the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places at 20".

https://aah.conference.uiowa.edu/

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Pleiades gazetteer 3d ago

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer 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 #SneakPeek 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: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/346004678

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Pleiades gazetteer Apr 6

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (30 March - 6 April 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 30 new and 319 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel Mckee, 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-30-march-6-april-2026

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Pleiades gazetteer Apr 3

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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Tom Elliott Mar 30

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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Pleiades gazetteer Mar 30

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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Pleiades gazetteer Mar 27

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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Tom Elliott Mar 27

Folks, the #PleiadesGazetteer has been nominated for the annual DH awards in the "dataset or model" category. There are, as always, many fantastic and important projects in all the categories. If you use or have otherwise benefited from Pleiades, I hope you will consider casting a vote for it before voting closes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj2_oFbryOurCVvVbBq6M3tY5POjhpWwFRcthZ9T8HDNjQYw/viewform

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Pleiades gazetteer Mar 23

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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