Ἰωτάπατα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἰωτάπατα, πόλις Συρίας. Ἰώσηπος ἐν τρίτῳ. καὶ θηλυκῶς Ἰωταπάτη· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἰωταπατηνός.

Iotapata: a city of Syria. Josephus in the third. Also in the feminine Iotapate; the ethnonym Iotapatenos.

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	#131
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 344.4
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-13
Word count	12

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 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 · 2 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 1.390

char LCS 51 (71.8%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Ἰωτάπατα, πόλις Συρίας. Ἰώσηπος ἐν τρίτῳ. καὶ θηλυκῶς Ἰωταπάτη· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἰωταπατηνός.

Herodian

…κης. Μαννάκαρτα πόλις Ἀραβίας. Ἀλύαττα χωρίον Βιθυνίας ἀπὸ Ἀλυάττου κρατήσαντος τὸν τόπον. Ἀρτάξατα πόλις Ἀρμενίας. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. ἣν καὶ Ἀρταξιάσατα καλοῦσι. λέγεται τὴν πόλιν οἰκίσαι Ἀρταξίαν Ἀρμενίας βασιλεύσαντα. Ἰωτάπατα πόλις Συρίας. Ἰώσηπος ἐν τρίτῳ (B. I. c. 6) καὶ θηλυκῶς Ἰωταπάτη. Σαμόσατα πόλις Κομμαγηνῆς ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Κυρέσχατα πόλις πρὸς τοῖς ἐσχάτοις Περσίδος, ἣ καὶ Κύρου πόλις καλεῖται, Μόκατα πόλις Βιθυνίας, ὡς Δομέτιος Καλλίστρατος ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἡρακλείας τετάρτῳ. Πάνακτον φρούριον Ἀττικῆς…