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Palephato

~ Kouklia

Palephato is Old Paphos, the Paphos that Homer already knew, at Kouklia in Cyprus. It stood a little inland, about ten stades from the shore, near the Zephyrium headland and the mouth of the Bocarus, where ships had a good anchorage. The map puts it eleven Roman miles from the newer Paphos and twenty-two from Curio. Some older copies misread the name as Phalephato.

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