Marcianus of Heraclea, Epitome of Artemidorus’ Geography 576.19-27
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Στράτωνος πύργος

, and

Straton’s Tower

are directly attested at Marcianus of Heraclea, Epitome of Artemidorus’ Geography 576.19-27. This passage was written ca. ca. 350-450 C.E. possibly in Heraclea Pontica. Marcianus from Heraclea Pontica on the southwestern coast of the Black Sea was a geographer of Late Antiquity who is best known for his compendia of earlier scholarship, including an epitome of the Late Hellenistic Geographic Description by Artemidorus of Ephesus. In this passage from his survey of Asia, Marcianus quotes Artemidorus concerning the relative situation of Strato’s Tower, Dor, and Mount Carmel. The same quotation appears at Stephanus of Byzantium, Book of Nations Δ 150, written six to seven centuries after Artemidorus’ work and two to three centuries after Marcianus’s work.

ΑΣΙΑ. Βιβλ. θʹ. Δῶρος, πόλις Φοινίκης. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ· “Μετὰ δὲ ἡ πάλαι Δῶρος, νῦν δὲ Δῶρα καλεῖται.” Καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν οἶδεν ἐν Ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ιαʹ· “Συνεχῶς δʼ ἐστὶ Στράτωνος πύργος, εἶτα ἔνι Δῶρα, ἐπὶ χερσονησοειδοῦς τόπου κείμενον πολισμάτιον, ἀρχομένου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Καρμήλου.” Καὶ ἐν θʹ Γεωγραφουμένων τὸ αὐτό.

[Ed. Müller 1855]

ASIA. Book 9. Doros, a city in Phoenicia. Hecataeus in [his book on] Asia: “After that is the city called Doros in the old times but today Dora.” And Artemidorus mentions the city Dora in Epitome of 11 books: “Continuing on is Straton’s Tower, and then Dora, a town situated on the peninsula where Mount Carmel begins.” And the same thing in Geographic Description 9. [Trans. J. L. Rife]

Works Cited

[...] 576.19-27

[Artemidorus of Ephesus, Geographic Description fr. 111

Hecataeus of Abdera, FGrH 1 F 275

Stephan of Byzantium, Book of Nations Δ 150]

[Carmel, Mount (Karmelos, Har HaKarmel, Jabal Mar Elyas)

Dor (Dor of Nafath, Dor Nafeth, Nafethdor, Nefeddor, Doros, Doroi, Dora, Dora Maritima, Tel Dor, Dor Tantura)

Phoenicia]

[Geography

Natural Environment]