VABAR
VABAR a river of Mauretania Caesariensis, which fell into the sea a little to the W. of Saldae. Ptolemy (
4.2.9) mentions it under the name of
Οὔαβαρ as if it had been a town; and Maffei (
Mus. Ver. p. 463) thought that he had discovered such a place in the name of Bavares, in an African inscription (cf. Orelli,
Inscr. no. 529). In Pliny (
5.2. s. 1) and Mela (1.6) the name is erroneously written Nabar.
It is probably the present
Buberak. [
T.H.D]