Sapha/Thilsaphata?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 20, 2026 01:31 PM
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 D3 Sapha/Thilsaphata?
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874678
37.264166, 41.981886
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 22579 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Sapha (30 BC - AD 640)
- Sapham (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Thilsaphata (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Sapha/Thilsaphata? next place in route Ad flumen Tigrim (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Sapha/Thilsaphata? located on Road from Barbare east to Ad fl. Tigrim (unspecified date range)
- Sarbane/Sisara next place in route Sapha/Thilsaphata? (AD 300 - AD 640)
fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 D3 Sapha/Thilsaphata?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bâbil
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sapha/Thilsaphata?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874678> [accessed: 14 May 2026]
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