Δόλβα - Stephanos Ethnika

Δόλβα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Δόλβα, πόλις τῆς Ἀδιαβηνῆς, Ἀρριανὸς ιγʹ Παρθικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δολβαῖος καὶ Δολβηνός.

Dolba: a city of Adiabene, Arrian in the thirteenth of the Parthika. The ethnonym Dolbaios and Dolbenos.

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	#105
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 235.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count	12

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρριανός (Arrian)	Παρθικῶν · FGrHist 156 F 43

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δόλβα	Dolba · place
Ἀδιαβηνή	Adiabene · place
Δολβαῖος	Dolbaean · people
Δολβηνός	Dolbēnos · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) Δolbaîos and Dolbēnós.

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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 (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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 · 3 occurrences
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 30 (44.1%) · word LCS 5 (41.7%)

Stephanos

Δόλβα, πόλις τῆς Ἀδιαβηνῆς, Ἀρριανὸς ιγʹ Παρθικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δολβαῖος καὶ Δολβηνός.

Herodian

… 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 ἀρχαιολογίας (c. 2). Γάββα πόλις Συρίας. Θίβα μία τῶν Ἀμαζόνων ὑφ´ Ἡρακλέους ἀναιρεθεισῶν, ὅθεν ἐκλήθη Θιβαΐς τόπος πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἄρυββα. Ἀνάζαρβα πόλις Κιλικ…