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Ziphene

Ζιφήνη

Ziphene (Ζιφήνη, Joseph. Antiq. 6.13), a district of Palaestina, in the neighbourhood of M<*> Carmel, which probably took its name from Ziph. (Josh. 15.14.) Steph. Byz. notices it, quoting from Josephus. [SIPH]

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.