Road station
Cassio
Râs Kasrûn
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Cassio was the station at Mount Casius, today's Ras Kasrun, near the Sirbonian lake on the edge of Arabia Petraea. The mountain had a temple of Jupiter, and the emperor Julian climbed it to sacrifice to him, as Ammianus tells. The tomb of Pompey lay here too. The map counts twenty-three Roman miles from Gerra, but gives no figure for the next stretch to Ostracine, whose start is not even marked.
Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.
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