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**Rome archaeology and stuff** @Rome_and_stuff@mastodon.social · 1d

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**Golavita Travel Egypt** @golavita@mastodon.social · 3d

Golavita Travel Egypt @golavita@mastodon.social

**Descend into history at Kom El Shoqafa!**

This accidental discovery (thanks to a donkey!) reveals Alexandria's stunning Greco-Roman catacombs. Marvel at:
• Anubis in Roman robes
• Ancient feasting halls
• 300+ hybrid Egyptian-Greek artifacts

A time capsule where cultures collide.

Catacomb of Kom El ShoqafaCatacomb of Kom El Shoqafa

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**Tom Elliott** @paregorios@hcommons.social · 3d

Tom Elliott @paregorios@hcommons.social

How do we know the ancient names of ancient places? There are many sorts of sources.

Sometimes, accounting documents or fragments thereof survive and sometimes they contain lists of estates. Often, these names are difficult or impossible to identify with specific places. But not always.

Here's a newly published one on papyrus, probably written in in the late sixth or early seventh century CE, probably at Herakleopolis in Egypt. The modern authors of the article have not only provided a text, but also a commentary that connects what can be connected of the toponyms to other published work.

La’da, Csaba A., and Amphilochios Papathomas. “A New Greek Papyrus Fragment of an Account and a List of Toponyms from the Late Antique Herakleopolites.” TYCHE – Beiträge Zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 38 (2023). https://doi.org/10.25365/tyche-2023-38-7.

doi.orgA New Greek Papyrus Fragment of an Account and a List of Toponyms from the Late Antique Herakleopolites | TYCHE – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik

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**Rome archaeology and stuff** @Rome_and_stuff@mastodon.social · 3d

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**Pussy Galore's Emporium** @pussygaloresemporium@mastodon.social · 6d

**Tom Elliott** @paregorios@hcommons.social · 6d

Tom Elliott @paregorios@hcommons.social

#PleiadesGazetteer sneak peek!

We'll release our usual "Last Week" summary blog post on Monday, but meantime here's the first fruits of what's likely to be a long, slow project: completing and refining Barrington Atlas coverage in North Africa. In the last few days, @serviliusahala has reviewed and published new and updated records I prepared for 18 places in modern Algeria, mostly north and east of modern Bordj Bou Arreridjj: https://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Cites=%22BAtlas+31+%22&created%3Alist%3Adate=2025%2F05%2F23&created_usage=range%3Amin&portal_type%3Alist=Place&review_state%3Alist=published

Many of these are unexcavated and/or heavily spoliated sites that were cataloged by Stéphane Gsell in the *Atlas Archéologique de l’Algérie* (Algiers, Paris: 1911) with only then-modern or no associated toponymy. They were subsequently added to the relevant Barrington Atlas maps without labels or individual directory entries... 1/?

A map of a portion of modern Algeria depicting the landscape using shaded relief and labeling a few key settlements, rivers, and modern roads including Bordj Bou Arreridjj (shown in the lower left quadrant of the map). Eighteen orange circles depicting Pleiades places are scattered across the map, which runs northward to modern Amizour and eastward past modern Aokas. A scale bar on the map reads "10 km" which permits the sited viewer to estimate that the area covered by the map is about 80 kilometers east-to-west and 120 kilometers north-to-south.

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