Ὀμφάλιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ὀμφάλιον, τόπος Κρήτης πλησίον Θενῶν καὶ Κνωσσοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀμφαλίτης.

Omphalion: a place of Crete near Thenai and Knossos. There is also of Thessaly. The ethnonym Omphalites.

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	#70
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 493.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	13

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀμφάλιον	Omphalion · place · corrected · Q137586831
Κρήτη	Crete · place · corrected · Q4752820
Θῆναι	Thenae (Θῆναι) · place · corrected · Q11951762
Κνωσσός	Knossos · place · corrected · Q173527
Θετταλία	Thessaly · place · corrected · Q1247568
Ὀμφαλίτης	Omphalites (ethnic name) · people
Omphalion in Crete	place · place · Crete · explicit · wikidata: Q137586831 · candidate
Omphalion in Thessaly	place · place · Thessaly · implicit · wikidata: Q106114419 · candidate

Links

Place links	Omphalion
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near 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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.362

char LCS 57 (76.0%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)

Stephanos

Ὀμφάλιον, τόπος Κρήτης πλησίον Θενῶν καὶ Κνωσσοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀμφαλίτης.

Herodian

…ώλιον. Βαργύλια πόλις Καρίας, ἣν Ἄνδανον οἱ Κᾶρές φασιν, Ἀχιλλέως κτίσμα λέγοντες. ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ Βαργύλου, ὃς πληγεὶς ὑπὸ Πηγάσου τελευτᾷ, Βελλεροφόντης δ´ ἀνιαθεὶς ἐπὶ τῷ ἑταίρῳ ἔκτισε Βαργύλια. Ἰδάλιον πόλις Κύπρου. Ὀμφάλιον τόπος Κρήτης πλησίον Θενῶν καὶ Κνωσσοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας. Ἐπιτάλιον πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας. Πολύβιος τετάρτῃ. Ἀμφιμάλιον πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἀμφιμάλου. λέγεται καὶ Ἀμφίμαλα. Σανδάλιον Πισιδίας χωρίον. Ταυροπόλιον ἐν Ἰκαρίᾳ νήσῳ παρακειμένῃ τῇ Σάμῳ Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερόν. Στράβων ιδʹ. Διοβ…