Cape Bon
- Ancient name
- Promontorium Mercurii
- Modern name
- Ras at-Taib
- Modern country
- Tunisia
- Coordinates
- 37.09, 11.04
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364249
Cape Bon is a peninsula in northeastern Tunisia that forms the southern side of the Gulf of Tunis; its tip lies only 90 miles from the southwestern tip of Sicily, with the (Italian) island of Pantelleria lying between them. Campbell #1682. Note that Cape Bon is a different place from both Bona (Algeria) and Bonandrea (Libya).
The toponym Cape Bon appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P031
Variant spellings of Cape Bon in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| [...]po b[...] | Par1 |
| Bona | Par3 |
| Cap[o bono] | Med1 |
| Capo bona | Luc2, Vat2, Wie1 |
| Capo Bona | Med3, Par3 |
| capo bona | Ashb3, Wie1 |
| capo bono | Bal, Barb3, Barb4, Borg, Chig1, Chig2, Con3, Con4, Cors2, Fn9, He2, Laur3, ME2, Magl2, Marc1, NB, New, Pnc5, Ricc11, Ricc13, Ricc8, Ro2, Spe, Urb1 |
| Capo bono | BL01, BL02, Cap1, Con1, Cs1, Fn6, Fo, Morg, NYPL2, Pal5, Parm2, Per2, Pnc4, Ricc14, Ricc17, Ricc6, Vat3 |
| CApo bono | Ricc6, Ricc9 |
| Capo Bono | Med3 |
| capo di bono | Med2 |
| capo vor | Pad1 |
| capobono | Ricc14 |
| Capobono | Marc2 |
| Cavo bono | He1, Par4 |
| cavo bono | He1, Par4, Tre |
| chanpo bono | Magl4 |
| chapo | Pal6 |
| chapo bona | Fn8, He3, Ricc1 |
| chapo bono | Fn12, Fn8, Pad1, Pal8, Pnc3, Ricc15, Yale4 |
| chapo Bono | Fn3 |
| chapobono | Laur5, NYPL1 |
| Tunixi | Clas2 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Cape Bon.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/cape-bon/.