This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...Jaferi, a short distance above the great city of Kerkh, the Beit Saluk of the Syrians; and this arm was evidently, according to Tabari, the original Katur, though subsequently the two branches were known by the same name. Sir Henry Eawlinson, who identifies Imam Dur with the Dura of Nebuchadnezzar (a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...Jaferi, a short distance above the great city of Kerkh, the Beit Saluk of the Syrians; and this arm was evidently, according to Tabari, the original Katur, though subsequently the two branches were known by the same name. Sir Henry Eawlinson, who identifies Imam Dur with the Dura of Nebuchadnezzar (a point upon which Oppert diners with him), also considers this northern arm of the Katur, the bed of which is above a hundred yards in width, to represent the Torna of Theophanes and the Tornadatus of Pliny, which Heraclius passed by the bridge now called Kantarah Easasi, or the 'leaden bridge, ' from the clamps by which the blocks of stone were fastened together, to occupy the city, which under its various names of Kherkh, Dastagerd, Beit Seluk, Beit Germa, and Beklam of Cedrenus, continued to be the metropolis of all Southern Assyria during the whole period of the Sassanian empire, and the site of which is now represented by the ruins designated as Eski Baghdad, or 'Old Baghdad.' It is also to be observed, that the identification of the site of Opis must obviously depend upon the antiquity of the Katur or Nahr-wan canal. From the account given by Xenophon, we certainly should not be led to suppose the canal to have existed at the time of the Katabasis, or the retreat, but if it could be proved to have been of an earlier age, then the Physcus of the Athenian historian will be represented by the canal rather than by the river Adheim, and Opis must be removed from that river, its present generally supposed position, to Kerkh or Eski Baghdad, which seems to be the most likely position for a large and opulent city. General Chesney, taking the distances given by Xenophon from the Zab backwards to the order of the retreat to Opis, has identified the...
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