Itinerarium Burdigalense, 587-588 (333 A.D.)
City of Neapolis - miles XV from Aser. Here is the Mount Gerizim. Here the Samaritans say that Abra-ham offered sacrifice, and one reaches the top of the mountain by steps, one thousand and three hundred in number. Beyond this, at the foot of the mountain itself, is a place called Sechim (Sichem). Here is a tomb in which Joseph is laid, in the 'parcel of ground' which Jacob his father gave to him (Jos 24:32). From thence Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, was carried off by the children of the Amorites (Gen 34:2). A mile from thence is a place named Sichar, from which the Samaritan woman came down to the same place in which Jacob dug the well, to draw water from it, and our Lord Jesus Christ talked with her (John 4:5-30); in which place are plane-trees, which Jacob planted, and a bath (baptistry) which is supplied with water from the well.

MORE ANCIENT SOURCES

Itinerarium Burdigalense 586 (333 A.D.)
City of Neapolis (15 miles). Mount Gerizim is there, where according to the Samaritans, Abraham offered his sacrifice. There are leading to the top of the mountain.

Hieronymus, Ep.108 (Peregrinatio Paulae) 13 (385 A.D.)
She passed on to Shechem (not, as some wrongly take it, "Sychar"), now called Neapolis, and near Mount Gerizim she went into the church built round the Well of Jacob. This is where the Lord sat down, hungry and thirsty, and was refreshed by the faith of the woman of Samaria, who had left her five husbands, (the books of Moses) and the sixth whom she boasted she had (the error of Dositheus), and found the true Messiah and Saviour.

Anonymus Placentinus, Itinerarium 6 (ca. 570 A.D.)
From Tabor we went to the Sea of Tiberias, and the city which was once called Samaria, but its name is now Neapolis. In it is the well where the Lord asked the Samaritan woman for water. This well is in front of the altar-screen, and they have a bucket there which, it is said, is the very one from which the Lord drank. Many diseases are cured there.

Theodosius, De situ Terrae Sanctae 2 (ca. 530 A.D.)
From Bethsaida it is eighteen miles to Samaria, which is now called Neapolis.

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BYZANTINE ADMINISTRATIVE LISTS

Hierocles, Synecdemos 721:1-11 (7th cent. A.D.)
Province of Palaestina Prima, 22 cities under a consularis: Cesarea, Dora, Antipatris, Diospolis, Azotos on the sea, Azotos inland, Eleuteropolis, Aelia which is also Jerusalem, Neapolis, [Livias], Sebaste, Anthedon, Diocletianopolis, Sycamazon, Ono, Sozousa, Ioppe, Gaza, Raphia, Ascalon, Gazaris, Betylion.

Georgius Cyprius, 997-1027 (7th cent. A.D.)
Province of Palaestina Prima, Aelia-Jerusalem, Caesarea, Dora, Antipatris, Diospolis wich is also Georgiopolis, Iamnia, Nicopolis, Ono, Sozousa, Ioppe, Ascalon, Gaza, Raphia, Anthedon, Diocletianopolis, Eleutheropolis, Neapolis, Sebaste, region of Amathous, region of Jericho, region of Livias, region of Gadara, Azotos Paralos, Azotos, Sycomazon, Bitylion, Tricomias, Toxos, Canstantiniac Salton, Geraritic Salton wich is also Barsamon.

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EPISCOPAL CITY

Bishops' list
Germanus (A.D. 314, 325)
Terebinthus (A.D. 484)
Procopius (A.D. 518)
Mammona (A.D. 529)
John (A.D. 536)
N. (A.D. 808).

ICONOGRAPHIC PARALLELS

City coin
(160/1 A.D.)
Fl(avias) Neas Poleos Syrias Palaistines

Tabula Peutingeriana
(4th cent. A.D.)
Neapoli

Umm al Rasas: Church of St. Stephen
(8th cent. A.D.)
Charach Mouba