Sape
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (Retd.) |
Sape was an Arabian town mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Sapedia = Sape (Pliny.vi.35)
- Sapera = Sape (Pliny.vi.35)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Ethiopia.... Aristocreon informs us that on the Libyan side, at a distance of five days' journey from Meroë, is the town of Tolles, and then at a further distance of twelve days' journey, Esar, a town founded by the Egyptians who fled from Psammetichus23; he states also that they dwelt there for a period of three hundred years, and that opposite, on the Arabian side, there is a town of theirs called Daron.24 The town, however, which he calls Esar, is by Bion called Sape, who says that the name means "the strangers:" their capital being Sembobitis, situate on an island, and a third place of theirs, Sinat in Arabia.
23 Who is mentioned again in B. xxxvi. c. 19.
24 Ptolemy, however, speaks of Esar and Daron as the names of towns situate on the island of Meroë.