Seriane

SERIA´NEa city of Syria mentioned in the Itinerary of Antoninus as xviii. M. P. distant from Androna, which was xxvii. M.P. from Calcis, cxxxviii. M.P. from Dolicha, now Doluc. ( Itin. Ant. pp. 194, 195.) Mannert thinks that it corresponds in situation with the Chalybon (Χαλυβών) of Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.15.17), which gave its name to a district of Syria Chalybonitis. It is certainly identical with the modern Siria, 2 long days SE. of Aleppo, in the desert, the ruins of which were discovered and described by Pietro della Valle. (Mannert, Geographie, part vi. vol. 1. p. 411.)