(Vo)pisciana
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Euzennat Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Euzennat Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 14, 2025 05:45 AM
—
History
The Antonine Itinerary attests to a station "Vopiscianis" (GeogRav "Bobiscianis") on the route from Tocolosida (modern Bled Takourart in Morocco) to Tingi (modern Tangier). Ptolemy's "Piskiana" would seem to reference the same feature or a nearby settlement associated with the road station. Various suggestions have been made by modern scholars for its identification with a suitable archaeological site or ruin in the area; the current communis opinio holds for Souq el Arbaâ du Gharb (see Souk el Arba).
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/278633
34.692414, -5.997725
- None
-
- Bopiscianis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Pisciana (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Πισκιάνα (Piskiana: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Vopiscianis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
-
- Pisciana (copy) (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Less than certain: (Vo)pisciana same as Souk el Arba (unspecified date range)
-
None
settlement, station (road or coastal)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 28 Pisciana
M. Euzennat, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, '(Vo)pisciana: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/278633> [accessed: 12 February 2026]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/278633 |title=Places: 278633 ((Vo)pisciana) |author=Euzennat, M. |accessdate=February 12, 2026 5:39 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}