Rasamabes
- Modern name
- Farwa Island, Ra's al-Makhbaz
- Modern country
- Libya
- Coordinates
- 33.1, 11.75
Rasamabes refers to a sandbar called Farwa Island, a thin strip of land protecting a large lagoon just to the east of the Tunisian-Libyan border, or a site on the Libyan mainland closest to it. Originally an island, it has been turned into a peninsula by a relatively recent manmade causeway. A relatively minor natural feature, it appears much more frequently on Sfera maps than the large island of Djerba, which is only labeled as such in 3 manuscripts; it is therefore possible that the many references to Rasamabes are actually intended to point to Djerba. Campbell #1656.
The toponym Rasamabes appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P111
Variant spellings of Rasamabes in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| Ilasamabes | Cap1 |
| ilasamabes | Marc2 |
| ra / samabes | Ricc1 |
| Ramabes | Pad1 |
| Rasabes | Clas2, Cors2 |
| Rasama besse | Fo |
| Rasamabes | Bal, Con3, Cs1, Fn9, Marc1, NYPL2, Par3, Ricc17 |
| rasamabes | Laur3, Laur5, Med2, NYPL3, Pal5, Per2, Ricc15, Tre, Yale4 |
| RasamaBese | Med3 |
| rasamabese | Ashb3, Wie1 |
| Rasamabessa | He2 |
| Rasamabesse | Con4, He3, Morg, Parm2 |
| rasamabesse | NB |
| rasamabet | ME2 |
| Rasamebesse | Pal6 |
| rasanabes | Fn12 |
| rassa malpase | Pnc3 |
| rassamabes | Par1 |
| rassamabessa | Con1 |
| rassamabesse | Ricc12, Ricc8 |
| Rassamabesse | Pnc4 |
| Resamabes | Magl2 |
| resamabes | Pnc5 |
| s[...]beso | Pal8 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Rasamabes.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, May 3, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/rasamabes/.