Saphri
Σαφρί
Eth. Saphri (Σαφρί), a small village of Parthyene mentioned by Isidorus (Stath. Parth. 100.12). It may be the same place as that called by Ptolemy Σόρβα (6.9.6), which he places in Hyrcania, close to the Astabeni. Forbiger identifies it with the modern Shoffri.
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.