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@pleiades_gazetteer@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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.

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

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A square, gray-toned satellite map that -- thanks to a scale bar labeled "10km" -- can be seen to cover an approximately 70 by 70 kilometer area. The terrain is mountainous, and a portion of a large river snakes across the map from middle right to center bottom. Labels for "Sinicik" (upper middle) and  Kâhta (near center) can be read. A bright blue line starts near the upper left portion of the map and runs eastward to near the middle before turning south-southeastward to eventually end in the large river at lower right. Partway along this clue line a large orange dot and smaller green bow-tie symbol can be seen, but they are not labeled.
A square, gray-toned satellite map that -- thanks to a scale bar labeled "10km" -- can be seen to cover an approximately 70 by 70 kilometer area. The terrain is mountainous, and a portion of a large river snakes across the map from middle right to center bottom. Labels for "Sinicik" (upper middle) and Kâhta (near center) can be read. A bright blue line starts near the upper left portion of the map and runs eastward to near the middle before turning south-southeastward to eventually end in the large river at lower right. Partway along this clue line a large orange dot and smaller green bow-tie symbol can be seen, but they are not labeled.
A square, gray-toned satellite map that -- thanks to a scale bar labeled "10km" -- can be seen to cover an approximately 70 by 70 kilometer area. The terrain is mountainous, and a portion of a large river snakes across the map from middle right to center bottom. Labels for "Sinicik" (upper middle) and Kâhta (near center) can be read. A bright blue line starts near the upper left portion of the map and runs eastward to near the middle before turning south-southeastward to eventually end in the large river at lower right. Partway along this clue line a large orange dot and smaller green bow-tie symbol can be seen, but they are not labeled.
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Pleiades gazetteer
@pleiades_gazetteer@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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.

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

Making sure you're not a bot!

A square, gray-toned satellite map that -- thanks to a scale bar labeled "10km" -- can be seen to cover an approximately 70 by 70 kilometer area. The terrain is mountainous, and a portion of a large river snakes across the map from middle right to center bottom. Labels for "Sinicik" (upper middle) and  Kâhta (near center) can be read. A bright blue line starts near the upper left portion of the map and runs eastward to near the middle before turning south-southeastward to eventually end in the large river at lower right. Partway along this clue line a large orange dot and smaller green bow-tie symbol can be seen, but they are not labeled.
A square, gray-toned satellite map that -- thanks to a scale bar labeled "10km" -- can be seen to cover an approximately 70 by 70 kilometer area. The terrain is mountainous, and a portion of a large river snakes across the map from middle right to center bottom. Labels for "Sinicik" (upper middle) and Kâhta (near center) can be read. A bright blue line starts near the upper left portion of the map and runs eastward to near the middle before turning south-southeastward to eventually end in the large river at lower right. Partway along this clue line a large orange dot and smaller green bow-tie symbol can be seen, but they are not labeled.
A square, gray-toned satellite map that -- thanks to a scale bar labeled "10km" -- can be seen to cover an approximately 70 by 70 kilometer area. The terrain is mountainous, and a portion of a large river snakes across the map from middle right to center bottom. Labels for "Sinicik" (upper middle) and Kâhta (near center) can be read. A bright blue line starts near the upper left portion of the map and runs eastward to near the middle before turning south-southeastward to eventually end in the large river at lower right. Partway along this clue line a large orange dot and smaller green bow-tie symbol can be seen, but they are not labeled.
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