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[Fl. Chrysorrhoas o. Fl. Abana] (Miller)

Barada

Siria/Palestina/Arabia

fiume

9C2 / 9C3

senza colore

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[Chrysorrhoas oder Abana]

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Kommentar (Talbert):
The river´s source is a spring or small lake (compare river #87). For its course to proceed through a mountain range (#117) is strikingly uncharacteristic of the mapmaker. One or more missteps by a copyist are possibly the cause. The blob of green ink in 9C3 above the river´s middle course is surely a mistake, perhaps a careless initial placement of lake #19, although one might have expected an outline in black ink to be drawn first in the map´s normal style. At any rate, our copyist neither gave further attention to this blob, nor erased it (in my view Miller 959 is wrong to consider it a lake), but its presence may then have required him to place the mountain range symbol further to the right than he otherwise should have; hence the river ran through it.

Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 843:
[Chrysorrhoas (Ho, Ra) oder Abana] Abana (Hi, Hf, Eb, Ra). gez. o. N., der Fluss von Damaskus, j. Nahr Barada, entspringt auf dem Libanus mons und verliert sich in den Salzsümpfen und dem See im Osten von Damaskus, j. Bahret Atebe, welche in der Ta als See dargestellt sind. Der Zeichner hat den Fluss mit dem Eleuter vermengt.

Miller, Itineraria, Sp. 843;

14.01.2023 16:31