Νόμβα - Stephanos Ethnika

Νόμβα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Νόμβα, πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας. Ἰώσηπος ἕκτῳ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νομβαῖος.

Nomba: a city of Judaea. Josephus in the sixth of the Jewish Antiquities. The ethnonym Nombaios.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#72
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 478.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	12

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας · (6, 242. 254. 260)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νόμβα	Nomba (Nob) · place · corrected · Q11991625
Ἰουδαία	Judaea (Judea) · place · corrected · Q104028
Νομβαῖος	(ethnicon) inhabitant of Nomba (Nombaian) · people
Νόμβα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q11991625 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Nob
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1726.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.252

char LCS 56 (76.7%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Νόμβα, πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας. Ἰώσηπος ἕκτῳ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νομβαῖος.

Herodian

…οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λαυινίου Λατῖνοι, Τρῶες ὄντες. ἔστι δὲ ἡ Ἄλβα καθ´ Ἑλλάδα λευκή. κλίνεται δὲ Ἄλβας, ὡς Χάραξ. λέγεται καὶ Ἄλβη. Ὄλβα πόλις τῆς τῶν Σολύμων γῆς, ἣν Φίλων Ὀλβίαν Παμφυλίας φησίν. Ῥάβα πόλις πρὸς τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Νόμβα πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας. Ἰώσηπος ἕκτῳ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας ( 12, 1 et 4). Κύρβα πόλις Κρήτης ἡ ὕστερον Ἱεράπυτνα, Ὕβα δῆμος τῆς Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. τινὲς δὲ τὸν δῆμον Ὑβάδαι λέγουσι. Δόλβα πόλις τῆς Ἀδιαβηνῆς. Ἀρριανὸς γʹ Παρθικῶν. Γάβα πόλις Γαλιλαίας. Ἰώσηπος πέμπτῳ Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρ…