Phaeno

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

PHAENO(Φαινώ, Euseb. Onomast. s. v. Φινῶν; Φαινά, Hierocl. p. 723), formerly a city of Idumaea, and afterwards a village of Arabia Petraea, between Petra and Zoar, containing copper mines, where condemned criminals worked. It was identified with Punon, one of the stations of the Israelites in their wanderings. ( Numb. 33.42; see Reland, Palaestina, p. 951; Wesseling, ad Hierocl. l. c.