Candidum Promontorium
Candidum Promontorium (Ras-el-Abiad, C. Blanco: all three names meaning White). a lofty headland of chalk and limestone, on the N. coast of Zeugitana in Africa, N. of Hippo Regius, and forming the W. headland of the Sinus Hipponensis. (Mela, 1.7.2; Plin. Nat. 5.4. s. 3; Solin. 27; Shaw, Travels in Barbary, p. 74, 2d ed.) Shaw takes it for Livy's PULCHRUM PROMONTORIUM, where Scipio landed; but that headland is the same as the APOLLINIS PROMONTORIUM
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.