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Headword: *ta/beia
Adler number: tau,5
Translated headword: Tabeia, Tabia, Tauion, Tavium
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a city and of a place.[1]
Greek Original:
*ta/beia: o)/noma po/lews kai\ to/pou.
Notes:
Tabia (present-day Buyuk Nefes) was in the eastern part of Galatia, well to the east of the River Halys; Barrington Atlas map 63 grid F1. Capital of the Trokmoi/Trocmi, who settled in this area after the Gallic migration of the 260s BC. Mentioned by Strabo 12.5.2 as a fortress, an emporion, and a place of refuge (in the precinct of Zeus with its colossal bronze statue).
However [NF], it is possible that the place intended was Tabai/Gabai (Isfahan in modern Iran), a place confusing to ancient geographers.
There is also a Tabai in SW Turkey.
[1] The import of this unusual (though cf. delta 335, omicron 707) dual classification is unclear. (Adler reports only 'city' in the Ambrosian Lexicon.)
Reference:
A.H.M. Jones, Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (Oxford 1971) 100-121
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: Paul McKechnie on 9 June 1999@22:24:51.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added headwords; augmented note) on 21 May 2001@05:18:53.
David Whitehead on 25 June 2001@03:19:25.
Nicholas Fincher (added note) on 17 July 2003@06:40:01.
Catharine Roth (added italics) on 16 September 2008@15:30:28.
David Whitehead (added Atlas ref; restorative and other cosmetics) on 17 September 2008@03:46:52.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; cosmetics) on 12 August 2011@03:39:46.
David Whitehead (coding) on 27 May 2016@06:33:26.

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