Seleucid royal cities as a model for Artaxata? Considerations on the urban planning of the Hellenistic Armenian capital
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Abstract
In 187 BC, Artaxias I turned Armenia, previously ruled by the Seleucids, into an independent kingdom and founded a new capital, Artaxata. Buildings on a range of hills are known from this city; it is however unclear how far the city extended into the plain. It is also uncertain where the palace was located. Based on the assumption that Artaxata was modeled on the royal cities of the Seleucids, an attempt is made hereafter to reconstruct the outlines of the original urban planning of Artaxata. If the premise is correct, Artaxias would have planned a city of 600 ha or more from the outset, encompassing the entire area between the ancient course of the Metsamor, the Araxes and the chain of hills. Inside, it would have a regular street grid and insulae of identical size. The palace district would be located in the south at the mouth of the Metsamor and Araxes and would cover around a quarter of the city’s area.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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