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Toponym TP (renewed):	Cypsaria
Name (modern):	Contellet Garaisjeh
Image:	To the image detail
Toponym before	XVI Rasa
Toponym following	XXVIII Lysa
Alternative Image	---
Image (Barrington 2000)
Image (Scheyb 1753)	---
Image (Welser 1598)	---
Image (MSI 2025)	---
Pleiades:	https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746741
Area:	Syria/Palestine/Arabia
Toponym Type:	Toponym, no Symbol
Grid square:	8C5
Toponym Color:	black
Vignette Type :	---
Itinerary:
Alternative Name (Lexica):
Name A (RE):	Gypsaria [1] - https://elexikon.ch/RE/VII,2_2093
Name B (Barrington Atlas):	Gypsaria? (76 F1)
Name C (TIR/TIB/others):
Name D (Miller):	Cypsaria
Name E (Levi):
Name F (Ravennate):
Name G (Ptolemy):
Plinius:
Strabo:
Dating from Toponym on TP:	---
Argument for Dating:
Commentary on the Toponym:	Kommentar (Talbert): The name is seen best in the 1888 photograph. Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 834: Cypsaria, it. (Pt); j. Contellet Garaisjeh, wo Reste einer alten Befestigung (Palmer) bei W. Djerafe; Austritt des W. el Baijane in die Araba (R Kp). 16. Kommentar (RE): Gypsaria. 1) Γυψαρία (Ptolem. V 17, 4; identisch damit ist Cypsaria Tab. Peut.), in Arabia Petraea, dritte Station an der westlichen Straße von Aila am Meerbusen von ʿAḳaba nach Jerusalem, 48 Millien von Aila entfernt, zwischen Gerasa und Lysa; nicht identifiziert. Ritter Erdkunde XIV 94–98. [Benzinger. ]
References:	Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 834; Benzinger, Immanuel, Gypsaria [1], in: RE VII.2 (1912), Sp. 2092. [Standard-Literatur-Liste im PDF-Format]
Last Update:	08.03.2026 16:35

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