Adramyttium

Adramyttium was a seaport city on the coast of Mysia in the Roman province of Asia, situated on a gulf of the Aegean Sea opposite the island of Lesbos. In Paul's day it was a commercially active port with a harbor that gave its name to the surrounding gulf. The city appears in the New Testament at a crucial moment in Paul's journey to Rome: the centurion Julius placed Paul and other prisoners aboard a ship of Adramyttium that was about to sail for the ports of Asia, intending to find a connection to Rome from the Aegean coast (Acts 27:2).

This Adramyttian vessel carried Paul as far as Myra in Lycia, where he transferred to an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy. The Adramyttium passage is one of the precise navigational details that give the sea-voyage account of Acts 27–28 its character as a firsthand travel narrative, consistent with Luke's presence as a companion on the voyage.