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Raphon/Raphana

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 05, 2020 02:50 PM — History
Raphon/Raphana was an ancient city of the Decapolis that is now in modern Jordan. The ancient site was the legionary base of Legio III Gallica and of Legio XII Fulminata.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678360

32.8520335, 36.1993395
    • Less than certain: Arpha (30 BC - AD 300)
    • Raphana (30 BC - AD 300)
    • Raphon (330 BC - 30 BC)
    • Less than certain: Rhaepta (30 BC - AD 300)
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settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 69 D4 Raphon/Raphana

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: er-Rafe? SYR

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E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Raphon/Raphana: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678360> [accessed: 30 January 2025] 

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