Nascus
Νάσκος
Nascus (Νάσκος, al. Μαόσκοπος μητρόπολις μητρόπολιρ), an inland city of Arabia Felix, in long. 81° 15′, lat. 20° 40′ of Ptolemy. (Ptol. 6.7.35.) Mr. Forster takes it to be Nessa of Pliny, the chief town of the Amathei, who occupied the present district of Yemâma. (Geography of Arabia, vol. ii. pp. 266, 267.)
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.