Tamna
Τάμνα
Tamna (Τάμνα, Strab. xvi. p.768; Steph. B. sub voce Tamna, Plin. Nat. 6.28. s. 32; Θούμνα, Ptol. 6.7.37; Thomna, Plin. Nat. 12.14. s. 32: Eth. Ταμνίτης), a city of Arabia, and the chief town of the Cattabaneis (Catabani), according to Strabo, or of the Gebanitae, according to Pliny. It is described by Pliny as a large commercial town with 65 temples, to which caravans from Gaza in Palestine resorted. It is probably Saná, the present capital of Yemen.
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.