Μαρίαβα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μαρίαβα, μητρόπολις Σαβαίων πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ.

Mariaba: the metropolis of the Sabaians by the Erythraean Sea. Strabo in the sixteenth.

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	#69
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 433.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	9

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιε̄ (16,4,2 [C 768,9])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαριάβα	Mariaba (Marib) · place · corrected · Q335478
Σαβαῖοι	Sabaeans · people
Ἐρυθρά θάλασσα	Red Sea · place
Μαρίαβα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q335478 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Marib \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1290.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	μητρόπολις ἡ gloss:4b7494b2aa08d8f1	metropolis Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	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 1.379

char LCS 61 (100.0%) · word LCS 9 (100.0%)

Stephanos

Μαρίαβα, μητρόπολις Σαβαίων πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ.

Herodian

κέλευθον, βάρβιτος βάρβιτον, Τάρταρος Τάρταρον, ἄρκευθος ἄρκευθον. * Τὰ εἰς 'βον' οὐδέτερα πληθυντικὰ κύρια ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Κάνδυβα πόλις Λυκίας ἀπὸ Κανδύβου παιδὸς Λευκαλίωνος. Μαρίαβα μητρόπολις Σαβαίων πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ. Μέσσαβα πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Μήδαβα πόλις τῶν Ναβαταίων. Τένδηβα πόλις Καρίας ἀρχαία. Ῥαβάθμωβα πόλις τρίτης Παλαιστίνης ἡ νῦν Ἀρεόπολις. Χαράκμωβα πόλις τῆς νῦν τρίτης Παλαιστίνης, ἣν ἀναγράφει Πτολεμαῖος γεωγρ…