PORPHYREON (Πορφύρεον; Eth. Πορφύρεον, Πορφύρεον), a city of Phœnicia, referred to by Scylax, situated between Berytus and Sidon, and marked in the Jerusalem Itinerary (where it is written Parphirion), as 8 Roman miles north of Berytus. Procopius speaks of it as a village built upon the coast. (Hist. Arc., c. 30, p. 164.) Polybius mentions it, and relates that it was situated in the neighbourhood of Platanus. It would seem accordingly to be correctly placed at the Khân Neby Yûnas, where Pococke records that he witnessed numerous broken pillars, a Corinthian capital, and various ruins on each side of a mountain torrent. In the side of this mountain there are tombs, extensively excavated, at the back of the Khân, which must once have belonged to an ancient city. Porphyreon was made a bishopric under the metropolitan of Tyre; and Justinian is said to have erected a church to the Virgin at that place. (Robinson's Bib. Researches, vol. iii.)