11-08-2007, 12:20 AM
Does anyone know the modern, Arabic name of the legionary base Raphanaea in Syria?
Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea
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11-08-2007, 12:20 AM
Does anyone know the modern, Arabic name of the legionary base Raphanaea in Syria?
11-08-2007, 10:41 AM
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?
11-08-2007, 12:14 PM
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,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo, casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ... Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
11-08-2007, 12:22 PM
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo, casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ... Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
11-08-2007, 01:30 PM
Yes, that is more or less what I know. The trouble is that I cannot spot the modern village on a modern map...
11-08-2007, 02:35 PM
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,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo, casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ... Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10 |
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