EUPHRANTA
EUPHRANTA or
EUPHRANTAS TURRIS (
Εὐφράντας πύρλος,
Strab. xvii. p.836;
Εὐφράντα πύρλος,
Ptol. 4.3.14;
Εὐφρανταί, Stadiasm. p. 452:
Kasr-Safran, Ru.), a fortress, and apparently also a town, near the bottom of the Great Syrtis.
According to Strabo, it was the boundary between the Carthaginian territory and the dominions of the Ptolemies. Adjacent to it was a good harbour, the only one on this part of the coast.
By this and other circumstances noticed by the ancients, it is identified with
Kasr-Safran, where are still to be seen the large ruins of a tower of massive masonry. (Della Cella, p. 50; Barth. pp. 340, 369.)
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