Pesla
Pesla or PESCLA (Not. Imp. 100.28, vol. i. p. 75, ed. Böcking), is probably the border-fortress in the N. of the Thebaid, which Ptolemy (4.5.71) calls Πασσάλων or Πάσσαλος. Pesla stood on the right bank of the Nile, and was the quarters of a German company (turma) of cavalry (D'Anville, Mém. sur l'Egypte, p. 190).
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.