Archelais
Archelais
A titular see of Palestine, twelve miles west of the Jordan. Its episcopal list is given in Gams (p. 453). Another town of the same name, in Cappadocia, was founded by Archelaus, the last of the Cappadocian kings.
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LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ. (1740), III, 675-676; SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 193.
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Archelais
(), a city built by Archelaus, after whom it was named (Josephus, Ant. 17, 13, 1). It was situated in the plain of the Jordan, near Jericho and Phasaelis (Josephus, Ant. 18, 2, 2). In the Peutinger Table (p. 434) it is placed twelve miles from Jericho toward Scythopolis. Ptolemy reckons it among the cities of Judaea (see Reland, Palaest. p. 462; comp. p. 576), and Pliny (13:4) speaks of it as a valley near Phasaelis and Livias. Antiochus is named in the Latin version of acts of the council of Chalcedon as bishop of Archelais in Palestine (Acta concilior general. 4, 80); but the Greek copies read Arce (), which likewise occurs in other notices (ib. 4, 327), as also the name Alcenon (, ib. 4, 460). Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 287) coincides in Schulze’s identification of the site with the ruins el-Basaliyeh, at the south base of a hill in the lower section of Wady Fariah.