Arimathea
Arimathea A city of the Jews
(Luke, 23.51), placed by St. Jerome near Diospolis or Lydda (Epitaph. Paul.), which would correspond very well with the situation of Ramleh, where a late tradition finds the city of Joseph of Arimathea. The arguments against this hypothesis are fully stated by Dr. Robinson. (Palestine, vol. iii. pp. 33, &c.) He concludes that its site has not yet been identified. Some writers identify it with RAMA.
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.