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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in 'The Builder' library means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. The Webmaster Copyright 1914 by the Commercial Museum Philadelphia The illustration on the title page is of a tetradrachm of Tiridates II in the Parthian Collection of the British Museum. PARTHIAN STATIONS BY 1 ISIDORE OF CHARAX AN ACCOUNT OF THE OVERLAND TRADE ROUTE BET\VEEN THE LEVANT AND INDIA IN THE FIRST CENTURY B. C. THE GREEK TEXT, WITH A TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY . BY WILFRED H. ·SCHOFF, A. M. Secretary of/he Commercial Museum, Philadelp)zia PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY THE COMMERCIAL MUSEUM 1914 2 II.IÂOPOT XAPAKHNOT I.TA8MOI IIAP8IKOI MECTO'IrOTap.{a~Ital Ba,8vÀ.Q)v{a~ CTxoîvot poa'. ,A'TT'OXXQ)vt(J.TI,8~CTxoîvotÀ."I" XaÀCOv{Tt8o~ CTxoîvot Ita'. M7}ô{a~ CTxoivot 1t,8'. K.a",fJaÔ7Jvr,~ CTxoîvot À.":. M7}ôla~ ~ IJ,veoCTxoîvot-)..7}" ~Pa"ltav7j~ M7}8{a~ CTxoîvot v,{. XoaP'1v7j~ uxoîvot dJ'. 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Then the village of Chum bana, l schoenus; farther on Thillada Mirrhada, a royal statio: l, 4 schoeni. \ Then a royal place; a temple of Artemis, foundcd by Darius, a small town; close by is the canal of Semiramis, and the Euphrates is dammed with rocks, in order that by being thus checked it may overflow the fields; but also in summer it wrecks the boats; to this place, 7 schoeni. Then Allan, a walled village, 4 schoeni. Then Phaliga, a village on • the Euphrates (that means in Greek half-way), 6 schoeni. From Antioch to this place, 120 schoeni; and from thence to Seleucia, which is on the Tigris, 100 schoeni. Nearby Phaliga is the walled village of Nabagath, and by it flows the river Aburas, which empties into the Euphrates; there "thelegions cross over to the Roman territory beyond the river. Then the village of Asich, 4 schoeni; beyond which is the city of Dura Nicanoris, founded by the Macedonians, also called by the Greeks Europus, 6 schoeni. Then Merrha, a fortified place, a walled village, 5 schoeni. Then the city of Giddan, 5 schoeni. Then Belesi Biblada, 7 schoeni. Beyond is an island in the Euphrates, 6 schoeni; there was the treasure of Phra• ates, who eut the throats of his concubines, when Tiridates who was exiled, invaded [the land].
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