Phasaelis
Φασαηλίς
Phasaelis (Φασαηλίς, Joseph., Stepl. B., s. v.; Φασηλίς, Ptol. 5.16.7; Phaselis, Plin. Nat. 13.4. s. 19, 21.5. s. 11: Eth. Φασαηλίτης), a town of Palestine built by Herod the Great in the Aulon or Ghor, N. of Jericho, by which means a tract formerly desert was rendered fertile and productive. (Joseph. 16.5.2, 17.11.5, 18.2.2, B. J. 1.21.9.) The name seems still to have existed in the middle ages, for Brocardus, quoted by Robinson, speaks of a village named Phasellum, situated a league N. of Dûk, and corresponding to the position of El-‘Aujeh, where there are ruins. (Robinson, Biblical Researches, vol. ii. p. 305.)
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.