Unknown, Bordeaux Itinerary 584.1-586.2
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Caesareae Palestinae

,

Caesarea Palestina

, and

Caearea Palestinae

are directly attested at Unknown, Bordeaux Itinerary 584.1-586.2. This passage was written ca. 333-334 C.E. possibly in Palestine. The earliest surviving firsthand account of Christian pilgrimage was written by an unknown man from Bordeaux in southwestern France (Roman Burdigala) who travelled overland to Syria and Palestine in 333-334 C.E. His account, organized as a strict itinerary according to distances between sites, notes topographic associations with the stories in Hebrew and Christian scripture and recounts local tradition. This passage covers the trip south from Tyre to the area of Caesarea Maritima.

Civitas Tyro mil. XII fit ab Antiochia Tyro usque milia CLXXIIII, mutationes XX, mansiones XI. mutatio Alexandroschene mil. XII mutatio Ecdeppa mil. XII civitas Ptolomaida mil. VIII mutatio Calamon mil. XII mansio Sicaminos ibi est mons Carmelus, ibi Helias sacrificium faciebat. Civitas Caesareae Palestinae id est Iudaea mil. VIII fit a Tyro Caesarea Palestina milia LXXIII, mutationes II, mansiones III. ibi est balneus Cornelii centurionis, qui multas elymosynas faciebat. Inde est tertio miliario mons Syna, ubi fons est, in quem mulier si laverit, gravida fit.

[Ed. Cuntz 1929]

City: Tyre 12 miles Tyre is 174 miles from Antioch, 20 exchanges, 11 overnights. Exchange: Alexandroschene 12 miles Exchange: Ecdeppa 12 miles City: Ptolemaida 8 miles Exchange: Calamon 12 miles Overnight: Sicaminos 3 miles Located there is Mount Carmel, where Elias made his sacrifice. Exchange: Certha 8 miles Border between Syria Phoenice and Palestina City: Caearea Palestinae (i.e. Judaea) 8 miles Caesarea Palestina is 73 miles from Tyre, two exchanges, three overnights. Located there is the bath of the centurion Cornelius, who did many charitable acts. From there at the third milestone is located Mount Syna, where there is the spring where, if a woman bathes in it, she becomes pregnant. [Trans. J. L. Rife]

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Additional Bibliography

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[Alexandroschene

Antioch on the Orontes

Calamon

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

Certha

Ecdeppa

Ptolemaïs (Acco, Accho, Acre, Akko)

Sykaminos (Sicaminos)

Syna, Mount

Tyre]

[Cornelius, early Christian at Caesarea

Elijah the Prophet (Helias)]

[Christian Bible

Christianity

Geography

Hebrew Bible

History of Israel

Judaism

Pilgrimage

Travel

Urban Topography]