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Headword:
Asphaltitis
limnê
Adler number: alpha,4296
Translated headword: Bituminous Lake
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A/the place] whence bitumen comes. Bitumen is a dessicative, like pitch. And doctors also use this.
Also [sc. attested is the noun] a)sfa/ltwsis ["laying over with bitumen"], [meaning] pitching-over.
Search [also] under Adiabene.[1]
Greek Original:Asphaltitis limnê: entha hê asphaltos ginetai. asphaltos de xêrion esti pittêi homoion. chrôntai de tautêi kai hoi iatroi. kai Asphaltôsis, hê pissôsis. zêtei en tôi Adiabênê.
Notes:
The headword phrase, "Bituminous Lake", was the ancient name for the Dead Sea: see e.g.
Diodorus Siculus 19.98, cf. 2.48.6;
Strabo 16.2.42. For "dessicative," see
xi 64.
[1]
alpha 470. (Adiabene is in present-day Iraq, i.e. a different location for bitumen.)
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 February 2002@14:39:02.
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