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ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΦΟΙΝΙΚΗ
Porphyreon (Porphureon: Eth. Porphureonios, Porphureonites), a city
of Phoenicia, mentioned by Scylax (p. 42, Hudson) between Berytus and Sidon, and
marked in the Jerusalem Itinerary (where it is written Parphirion, p. 583, Wesseling)
as 8 Roman miles N. of Berytus. Procopius calls it a village upon the coast. (Hist.
Arc. c. 30, p. 164, Bonn.) It is mentioned by Polybius (v. 68), from whose narrative
we learn that it was in the neighbourhood of Platanus. Hence it seems to be correctly
placed at the Khan Neby Yunas, where Pococke relates (vol. ii. p. 432) that he
saw some broken pillars, a Corinthian capital, and ruins on each side of a mountain
torrent. In the side of the mountain, at the back of the Khan, there are extensive
excavated tombs, evidently once belonging to an ancient city. The Crusaders regarded
Haifa as the ancient Porphyreon; but there is no authority that a city of this
name ever stood in the bay of ‘Akka. Justinian built a church of the Virgin at
Porphyreon (Procop. de Aedif. v. 9, p. 328); and it was a place of sufficient
importance to be made a bishopric under the metropolitan of Tyre. (Robinson, Biblical
Researches, vol. iii. p. 432.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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