total of distances between stations 174 sch., without the two omitted by him.
total of distances between stations 120 sch. without one omitted by him.
As regards the second section, Kiepert believed that a copyist’s error of 10 sch. too much had been made in Isidorus’s table between Izannesopolis and Aeipolis (the modern Hît), but even this correction will not bring the totals together (Ritter, Vol. XI. p. 738). The road from the Zeugma to Nicephorium does not follow the river, and I am therefore unable to control the statements of Isidorus above Raḳḳah; nor do I know the section between Hît and Seleucia. I need scarcely say that my table is of the most tentative character; it begins with the ninth station of Isidorus, Nicephorium.
The first remarkable site which I saw on the river below Raḳḳah was the large area surrounded by a ditch, half-an-hour above my camping-ground. Isidorus’s tenth station from Zeugma is Galabatha. Ritter (Vol. XI. p. 687) observes that it must be above Abu Sa’îd, and the area enclosed by the ditch fulfils that condition. The eleventh station is Khubana which I put at Abu Sa’îd, where there are fragments of columns and other evidences of antiquity. The twelfth station is Thillada Mirrhada; I have placed it at Khmeiḍah (squared stones, brick walls, a broken sarcophagus), but the claims of Abu ’Atîḳ are considerable, the extent of the ruin field at the latter place being much larger than at Khmeiḍah. But Abu ’Atîḳ is 7 hrs. 5 min. from Abu Sa’îd, and the caravan time between Khmeiḍah and Abu Sa’îd (6 hrs. 5 min.) is already rather long for the 4 sch. allowed by Isidorus. The thirteenth station is Basilia with Semiramidis Fossa. Ritter long ago pointed to the probability of its having been situated at Zelebîyeh (Vol. XI. p. 687).
-----------------------------+-----------+---------------+------- Isidorus | | | --------------+--------------+ Schœni | Modern Sites | Time Stations | Description | | | --------------+--------------+-----------+---------------+------- | | | | hrs. | | | | min. --------------+--------------+-----------+---------------+------- 9. | Greek town | -- | Raḳḳah | -- Nicephorium | founded by | | | | Alexander | | | 10. | Deserted | 4 | Ditch | 6 15 Galabatha | village | | | 11. Khubana | Village | 1 | Abu Sa’îd | 1 30 12. | | | | Thillada | Royal | 4 | Khmeiḍah | 6 5 Mirrhada | station | | | 13. Basilia | Temple of | | | | Artemis | ? | Zelebîyeh | 3 40 | built by | | | | Darius, | | | | village | | | | surrounded | | | | by wall | | | Semiramidis | Euphrates | | | Fossa | dam | | | 14. Allan | Walled | 4 | Umm Rejeibah | 3 | village | | | 15. Biunan | Temple of | 4 | Near Deir | 6 | Artemis | | | 16. Phaliga | Village | 6 | ? | -- 17. | Walled | Near | | Nabagath | village on | Phaliga | Buseirah | 7 | Aburas | | | 18. Asikha | Village | 4 | Jemmah | 5 10 19. Dura | Town founded | 6 | Abu’l | 8 20 Nicanoris | by | | Ḥassan | | Macedonians, | | | | called | | | | Europus by | | | | Greeks | | | 20. Merrhan | Castle and | 5 | Irzî | 6 30 | walled | | | | village | | | 21. Giddan | Town | 5 | Jabarîyeh? | -- 22. | -- | 7 | Ḳal’at | 9 25 Belisibiblada | | | Bulâḳ | 23. Island | -- | 6 | Ḳarâbileh? | -- 24. Anatho | Island | 4 | Lubbâd, | 11 50 | | | island | | | | opposite | | | | ’Ânah | 25. Olabus | Island, | 12 | Ḥadîthah | 12 | Parthian | | | | treasure- | | | | house | | | 26. | -- | 12 | Chesney’s | -- Izannesopolis | | | Ḳaṣr | | | | | 27. Aeipolis | Bitumen | 16 | Hît | 17 30 | wells | (6?) | |