Strabo, Geography 16.2.27
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Στράτωνος πύργος

, and

Strato’s Tower

are directly attested at Strabo, Geography 16.2.27. This passage was written ca. 7-24 C.E. possibly in Alexandria or Rome. Strabo was a scholar from a prosperous family in north central Asia Minor. He spent much of his career during the reign of Augustus traveling for research to compile an encyclopedic survey of the contemporary world. His work in 17 books chronicles the geographic and ethnographic diversity of the Mediterranean basin and those regions of Europe, the Middle East, and north Africa under Roman rule in the first decades of the principate. His survey moves systematically from West to East, covering in its penultimate book the settlements along the Levantine coast.

Μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἄκην Στράτωνος πύργος πρόσορμον ἔχων. Μεταξὺ δὲ ὅ τε Κάρμηλος τὸ ὄρος καὶ πολιχνίων ὀνόματα, πλέον δ’ οὐδέν, Συκαμίνων πόλις, Βουκόλων καὶ Κροκοδείλων πόλις καὶ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα· εἶτα δρυμὸς μέγας τις.

[Ed. Meineke 1877]

After Ake is Strato’s Tower, which has a landing for ships. Between the two is Mount Carmel, as well as towns of which remains and nothing more remain—Sykaminopolis, Boukolos and Krokodeilopolis, and others like them. Then comes a large forest.

[Adapted from Jones 1930]

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[Boukolos

Carmel, Mount

Krokodeilopolis (Crocodilopolis)

Prolemaïs (Ake, Acco, Accho, Acre, Akko)

Sykaminopolis (Sykaminos, Sycaminus)]

[n]

[Geography

Maritime Activity

Natural Environment

Travel]