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Headword: *ska/fh
Adler number: sigma,543
Translated headword: Skaphe, Scaphe
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A city.[1]
But [sc. neuter-plural] skaphe [are also] the insides of boats, what we call their gastrai. Meaning bellies.[2]
Greek Original:
*ska/fh: po/lis. *ska/fh de\ ta\ koilw/mata tw=n nhw=n, a(\ h(mei=s ga/stras kalou=men. a)nti\ tou= gaste/ras.
Notes:
[1] Summarily listed in Ptolemy, Geography 5.18.9, as lying near the R.Tigris. Tentatively located in the Barrington Atlas, map 91 [Ctesiphon] grid G5, at present-day Tulul al-Shuaila, Iraq.
[2] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.50.1, where the word occurs.
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; imagery; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 April 2003@04:37:51.
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Nicholas Fincher (added note) on 17 July 2003@06:21:08.
David Whitehead (cosmetics; raised status) on 17 July 2003@08:25:30.
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David Whitehead (modified and expanded n.1) on 26 July 2011@06:02:14.
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