Unknown, Bordeaux Itinerary 600.1-6
created: This entry is taken from Bordeaux Itinerary 600.1-6 written by Unknown in 333-33
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Caesarea

is directly attested at Unknown, Bordeaux Itinerary 600.1-6. This passage was written ca. 333-334 C.E. possibly in Palestine. The earliest firsthand account of Christian pilgrimage that survives 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, which is organized as a strict itinerary according to distances between sites, cites topographic associations with the stories in the Hebrew and Christian bibles and recounts local tradition. This passage maps the trip from Jersualem and north up the coast to Caesarea.

Item ab Ierusalem, sic: civitas Nicopoli mil. XXII civitas Lidda mil. X mutatio Antipatrida mil. X mutatio Batthar mil. X civitas Caesarea mil. XVI

[Ed. Cuntz 1929]

Likewise from Jerusalem it goes: City: Nicopoli 22 miles City: Lidda 10 miles Exchange: Antipatrida 10 miles Exchange: Matthar 10 miles City: Caesarea 16 miles [Trans. J. L. Rife]

Works Cited

[...] 600.1-6

[Bordeaux Itinerary 589.4-6]

[Antipatris (Antipatrida)

Jerusalem

Lydda (Lidda)

Matthar (Batthar)

Nicopolis]

[Geography

Travel]