Ancient Sarapion | |
Location | Somalia |
City-state existed: | 2nd century |
Sarapion ( Ancient Greek: Σαράπιον, also spelled Serapion) was an ancient port city located in the Horn of Africa.
It was situated on a site that later became Mogadishu. Sarapion was briefly mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia as one of the harbours a trader would encounter after sailing southernly on the Indian Ocean, passing along the way by the Market of Spices ( Damo) and the emporium of Opone. The town is believed by modern scholars to have been positioned in the vicinity of Mogadishu and Warsheikh in present-day south-central Somalia. [1] [2]