Phoenicus
Φοινικοῦς λιμην
Phoenicus (Φοινικοῦς λιμην, Strab. xvii. p.799; Ptol. 4.5.7; Stadiasm. § 12), a harbour of Marmarica, off which there were the two islands DIDYMAE, which must not be confounded with those which Ptolemy (4.5.76) places off the Chersonesus Parva on the coast of Aegypt. Its position must be sought between PNIGEUS (Πνίγευς, Strab. l.c.; Ptol. l.c.; Stadiasm. l c.), which is identified with Râs Tanhub, and Râs-al-Kanaïs.
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.