GRAFFIAS (Beta Scorpii). Graffias, in the head of the celestial Scorpion and Scorpius’s Beta star, has at least two names and many more components.
Since the nineteenth century, three places have been considered as the possible location of Biblical Betsaida: the Bedouin village of Messadiye; the small, deserted settlement of El-Araj (Beit HaBek, “House of the Bey”); and the archaeological site (tel) of Et-Tell.