PHAENO
PHAENO (
Φαινώ, Euseb. Onomast. s. v.
Φινῶν; Φαινά, Hierocl. p. 723), formerly a city of Idumaea, and afterwards a village of Arabia Petraea, between Petra and Zoar, containing copper mines, where condemned criminals worked.
It was identified with Punon, one of the stations of the Israelites in their wanderings. (
Numb. 33.42; see Reland,
Palaestina, p. 951; Wesseling,
ad Hierocl. l.c.)