Raphana

This article covers the ancient city of the Decapolis. For Raphana in Syria see Raphaneia .

Raphana was an ancient Greco-Roman city of the Decapolis .

It is probably identical with the biblical place Raphon ( Ῥαφών ), where the ammonite general Timotheus was defeated by Judas Maccabeus ( 1 Makk 5.37  EU ).

See also

• Abila (Decapolis)

swell

• Pliny the Elder Naturalis Historia 5.74
• Flavius ​​Josephus Antiquitates Judaicae XII, 8.4

literature

• Georg Beer : Raphana 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IA, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Col. 232.
• Mathias Döring : Water for the Decapolis - Roman long-distance water pipeline in Syria and Jordan . Writings of the German Water History Society DWhG, Vol. S 12, Siegburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-9815362-3-2 .

Web links

• Brown, J., E. Meyers, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies: Places: 678360 (Raphon / Raphana) . Pleiades. Retrieved October 18, 2013.

Coordinates: 32 ° 50 '58.4 "  N , 36 ° 11' 48.2"  E