Joseph L. Rife (eds.), "Anonymous Pilgrim V, Untitled 2.23" in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/283
  
    
      
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        Cesarea, Turris Stratonis, Caesarea, and Strato’s Tower are directly attested at Anonymous Pilgrim V, Untitled 2.23. This passage was written ca. 1180-1205 C.E. possibly in Palestine.
      We know next to nothing about the European traveller to the Holy Land
        called Anonymous Pilgrim V, whose account survives in one manuscript in Austria. The editor
        Wilhelm Neumann argued that, while his journey seems to have preceded the fall of Jerusalem
        in 1187 C.E., certain details reflect knowledge of the end of the 12th or beginning of the
        13th century. The work has two parts apparently written by the same author, the first giving
        a straightforward itinerary and the second a survey of the region’s ethnography, religions,
        and environment. This passage addresses changes in place names over time, including
        Caesarea.
      
        
        Nomina autem civitatum
        et locorum, que propter mutationem gentium, que ipsam terram) diversis temporibιιs
        incoluerunt, paulatim mutata sunt. Ierusalem primo dicta et Iebus, postea Salem, propterea
        dicta est Ierusalem, postea Ierosolima; postea Elya, ab Elia Romano, qui postea ipsam post
        destructionem Titi edificavit in loco, quo nunc est. Ebron, que primo Arbe, postea
        Cariathiarim, postea Ebron, postea Abaram, quia ibi sepultus fuit Abraham. Ascalon primo
        dicta Philistim, urbs fuit Philistinorum. Gaza sic semper dicta fuit. Que nunc Sanctus
        Georgius dicitur, Lidda¬ dicta fuit. Cesarea primo Dor, postea
          Turris Stratonis, nunc Cesarea ad honorem
        Cesar est vocata. Caifa, primo Porfiria. Acon postea Ptolomaida.
      
        
        
        Ed.
          Neumann 1866
        Heiligenkreuz Bibliothek 88
      
      
        
        The names of cities and places have changed gradually due to the
            changing of the peoples who inhabitated the land at different times. Jerusalem was at
            first called Jebus, later Salem, and therefore it was called Ierusalem, later
            Ierosolima; after that Elia, from Aelias the Roman who, after its destruction by Titus,
            built it on the place it now is. Then there is Hebron, which was at first Arbe, later
            Cariathiarim, then Ebron, then Abaram, because Abraham was buried there. Ascalon was at
            first called Philistim, it was the city of the Philistines. Gaza was always called thus.
            The place that is today St. George was called Lidda. Caesarea was
            at first Dor, later Strato’s Tower, and now it is called Caesarea in honor of Caesar. Caifa was at first Porphyria.
            Accon came after Ptolemaïs.
      
        
        
        Adapted from Stewart
               1894
      
      
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        Ascalon
        Dor
        Gaza
        Haifa (Caifa)
        Hebron
        Jerusalem
        Lydda
        Ptolemaïs (Acco)
      
      
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        Augustus, Emperor
        Titus, Emperor
      
      
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