Zephyrium
ZEPHY´RIUM (Ζεφύριον), the name of a great number of promontories, as
1.At the western extremity of the peninsula of Myndus in Caria, now called Gumichle or Angeli. (Strab. 14. p. 658.)
2.On the coast of Cilicia, between Cilicia Tracheia and Pedias, a little to the west of the town of Anchiale. (Strab. 14. p. 671.) It contained a fort of the same name, and was 120 stadia from Tarsus, and 13 miles east of Soli. (Stadiasm. § 157; Tab. Peut.; comp. Scyl. p. 40; Ptol. 5.8.4; Liv. 33.20; Plin. Nat. 5.22Hierocl. p. 704.) When Pliny (Plin. Nat. 34.50) states that the best molybdaena was prepared at Zephyrium, he no doubt alludes to this place, since we know from Dioscorides (5.100) that this mineral was obtained in the neighbouring hill of Corycus, and that there it was of excellent quality. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 214) looks for it near the mouth of the river Mertin.
3.On the coast of Cilicia, near the mouth of the river Calycadnus. (Strab. 14. p. 670; Ptol. 5.8.3.)
4.A town on the coast of Paphlagonia, 60 stadia to the west of Cape Carambis. (Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 15; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 6; Ptol. 5.4.2.)
5.A town and promontory on the coast of Pontus, in the country of the Mosynoeci, 90 stadia to the west of Tripolis. (Ptol. 5.6.11; Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 17; Scylax, p. 33; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 13; Tab. Peut. ) The cape still bears the name of Zafra or Zefreh, and Hamilton (Researches, 1. p. 261) regards the modern Kaik Liman as occupying the site of the ancient Zephyrium. [L.S]
ZEPHY´RIUM (Ζεφύριον ἄκρον, Ptol. 3.17.5).
1.A promontory on the E. part of the N. coast of Crete, near the town of Apollonia. Now Ponta di Tigani.
2.A promontory on the W. coast of Cyprus, near Paphos, probably the cape which closes the bay of Baffo to the W. (Ptol. 5.14.1; Strab. 14. p. 683.)
3.A promontory in the E. part of Cyrenaica, 150 stadia to the W. of Darnis. (Strab. 17. p. 799, who attributes it to Marmarica; Ptol. 4.4.5; Stadias. M. Magni, § § 47, 48.) Now Cape Derne.
4.Another promontory of Cyrenaica, with a harhour. (Strab. 17. p. 838.)
5.A promontory near Little Taposiris in Lower Aegypt, having a temple of Arsinoë--Aphrodite. (Strab. 17. p. 800.) Hence that goddess derived the epithet of Zephuritis (Ζεφυρῖτις, Athen. 7. p. 318, D.; Callim. Ep. 31; Steph. B. s. v.).
6.A town of the Chersonesus Taurica, mentioned only by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 26). [T.H.D]
(Ζεφύριον, sc. ἀκρωτήριον, i. e. “the western promontory”). The name of several promontories of the ancient world, not all of which, however, faced the west. The chief of them were: (1) Now C. di Brussano, a promontory in Bruttium, forming the southeastern extremity of the country, from which the Locri, who settled in the neighbourhood, are said to have obtained the name of Epizephyrii. (See Locri.)
(2) A promontory on the west coast of Cyprus.
(3) In Cilicia (prob. C. Cavaliere), a far-projecting promontory, west of Prom. Sarpedon.
- Paus. 3.3.1, Paus. 6.6.4, Paus. 6.19.6