Rhaphanaea / Raphanaea

[Jona Lendering]

Does anyone know the modern, Arabic name of the legionary base Raphanaea in Syria?

[C. Apollonius Priscus]

Rafniye?

[Jona Lendering]

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?

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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 SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

Here is the map with Rephanea:

http://books.google.com/books?id=dz3d7y ... leN_cF8oXw

Vale,

[Jona Lendering]

Yes, that is more or less what I know. The trouble is that I cannot spot the modern village on a modern map...

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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,