to the Lake Shkodra as Lacus Labeatium. The core of the Labeatan territory must therefore have been the area around this lake. The Labeatan king Genthius was also in possession of Rhizon, the capital of the Ardiaean kingdom.

In the description of the place where the envoy of Gentius and Perseus met in 168 BC, Polybius ( 2nd century BC) reports that the site