Aphaca
Ἄφακα
Aphaca (Ἄφακα: Afka), a town of Syria, midway between Heliopolis and Byblus. (Zosim. 1.58.) In the neighbourhood was a marvellous lake. (Comp. Senec. Quaest. Nat. 3.25.) Here was a temple of Aphrodite, celebrated for its impure and abominable rites, and destroyed by Constantine. (Euseb. de Vita, 3.55; Sozom. 2.5.) Aphek in the land assigned to the tribe of Asher (Joshua, 19.30), but which they did not occupy (Judges, 1.31), has been identified with it. (Winer, Real Wort. art. Aphek.) Burckhardt (Travels, p. 25) speaks of a lake Liemoun, 3 hours' distance from Afka, but could hear of no remains there. (Comp. paper by Rev. W. Thomson, in Am. Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. v. p. 5.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.