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Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - Jona Lendering - 11-08-2007
Does anyone know the modern, Arabic name of the legionary base Raphanaea in Syria?
Re: Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - C. Apollonius Priscus - 11-08-2007
Rafniye?
Re: Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - Jona Lendering - 11-08-2007
Thanks, sounds plausible, but where's that on the map? I've a pretty good map and know where it ought to be more or less - but where is it exactly?
Re: Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 11-08-2007
Yes Alan, Rafniye.
http://books.google.com/books?id=dz3d7y ... d5rtlzzMsk
at page 361 n.9 is told on which route Rephanea/Rafniye was.
Valete,
Re: Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 11-08-2007
Here is the map with Rephanea:
http://books.google.com/books?id=dz3d7y ... leN_cF8oXw
Vale,
Re: Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - Jona Lendering - 11-08-2007
Yes, that is more or less what I know. The trouble is that I cannot spot the modern village on a modern map...
Re: Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 11-08-2007
From a roman coins site:
http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/vso/v21/gb/m ... nbfic=3871
It seems at: 32°54' N, 36° 10' E
sometimes called Rafniyef too.
Vale,