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Raphon/Raphana

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.M. Meyers, J.P. Brown
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Apr 30, 2026 11:11 AM — 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, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Raphon/Raphana: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678360> [accessed: 14 July 2026] 

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