(Vo)pisciana
settlement · 30 BC – 1999 AD · location approximate
The Antonine Itinerary attests to a station "Vopiscianis" (GeogRav "Bobiscianis") on the route from Tocolosida (modern Bled Takourart in Morocco) to Tingi (modern Tangier). Ptolemy's "Piskiana" would seem to reference the same feature or a nearby settlement associated with the road station. Various suggestions have been made by modern scholars for its identification with a suitable archaeological site or ruin in the area; the current communis opinio holds for Souq el Arbaâ du Gharb (see Souk el Arba).
- Coordinates
- 34.69241, -5.99772
- Also known as
- Bopiscianis (la), Bopiscianis (la), Pisciana (la), Pisciana (la), Piskiana (grc), Vopiscianis (la), Vopiscianis (la), Πισκιάνα (grc)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)