Ptolemais
The great Canaanite port.
Inhabitants or natives
The sailors: Nicomedes the Cretan, Démété the sailor miraculously saved.
Description
"Jesus is in this magnificent maritime city whose natural gulf, immense and well protected, can be seen on a map, capable of receiving numerous ships, made even safer by a powerful harbor dyke. It must also be used by the troops, for I see Roman triremes with soldiers on board. They disembark for relief or to reinforce the garrison. The port, that is to say the port city, vaguely reminds me of Naples dominated by Vesuvius."[1]
"Ptolemais passes before the eyes of travelers, stretched out as it is on the shore and with the port to the south of the city."[2]
Notable facts
It is from this port that the exiles Sintica and John of Endor depart.
Its name
St. John of Acre - Acco. Other names: Tel 'Akko/Acco, Tel/Tell el-Fukhkhar, Antiochia Ptolemais, Acon.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 104
EMV 318
EMV 550
Learn more about this place
- Name given at the beginning of the 2nd century BC by Ptolemy of Egypt to the Canaanite port of Akko north of Carmel. It was the only natural port south of Phoenicia. It played an important role in the Jews' fight for freedom in the time of the Maccabees.[3] It was a Roman colony.[4]
- Mount Meron can be seen 20 km away (1,028 m). This is possibly what makes Maria Valtorta say that the site vaguely reminds her of Naples dominated by Vesuvius.
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