Cottabani
Κατταβήνοι
Eth. Cottabani (Eth. Κατταβήνοι), a people of Arabia, to the east of the Omanitae, the modern Omán, extending to the mountains of the Asabi, at the entrance to the Persian gulf. (Ptol. 6.7.) They are referred by Forster to the Beni-Kahtan, or Joctanite family of Arabs, the classical name being merely an inversion of their well-known native appellation. (Arabia, vol. i. p. lxxvi., vol. ii. p. 154.)
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.