Unlocated Toponyms

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The Map-by-Map Directory to the Barrington Atlas includes tables headed "Unlocated Toponym(s)." Explain further.

Some examples of Unlocated Toponyms from Map 65 include:

NamePeriodProbable LocationReference
Agathe KomeLSarayköy plain?TIB Phrygien 172
AkarassosLin KabalisRobert, Hell. 10, 207-208
*AltadaRin Killanian plain, probably part of tetrapolis with Anaboura and NeapolisMAMA 8.349
Apollonos HieronRnear BuldanHabicht 1975, 75
CanasRLyciaPliny, NH 5.101
Civitas CillanensiumRtown or name of tetrapolis in Killanian plainMAMA 8, xiv-xv
DaseiaRnear MyraOGIS 572
DiaLyciaRE 1; Troxell 1982, 190
Dyrzela/ZorzelaR/LPisidian city, probably in the area of Timbriada or AdadaRE
*ElaibarisRpossible tower and estate center at *LyrbaŞahin 1995; Schuler 1998, 262 (n. 307)
EmporionLharbor of Perge, perhaps at MagydosProcop., Aed. 5.9.38

In Pleiades, they will be classed as settlements (or other appropriate EntityTypes? with, to begin with, null geometry and the location description populated from the "Probably Location" column in the table.

For some of these, you could argue that what we really need is a relationship to another geoentity (a "containment" relationship, for example) but others (e.g., Apollonos Hieron) that wouldn't work so well. Bounding boxes might be better and simpler to implement?

Add links to relationship and bounding box stories and tickets, etc. per irc on 17 Nov 2006.