Identifier: 01084084.1222.emory.edu
Title: Encyclopædia biblica (electronic resource); a critical dictionary of the literary, political and religious history, the archæology, geography, and natural history of the Bible
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Cheyne, T. K. (Thomas Kelly), 1841-1915 Black, J. Sutherland (John Sutherland), 1846-1923
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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c—or ratherPathmetic (thus Ptol. and Pomp. Mela)—,>., the NorthernOa.^smhitiy-hy other wnters. 1 Not from the biblical Joseph. 2 Such calamities, sometimes in several successive vears. arernentipned repeatedly. A legend from the Ptolemaic period(inscription at the first cataract, found by Wilbour, translated byBrugsch, Die Bibhschen 7 Jahre der Hungersnot, 1891, andby Pleyte) reports seven years of famine before 3000 B.C. Thestrange water-marks on the rocks of Nubia, 25 ft. above themodern level, are difficult to explain. They cannot well hef„M^ ^ Pfj *? ^^ lundations were so much higher,for that would involve our assuming that all ruins now exiltingwere, in antiquity, under water. for ,?I * ffl!^ Nilometers-wells with measures markedfrom ^^/^ufy ° > =-*^ °f Phite remains —(wearing water flowers on the head, and offeringIresh water and water flowers). Ssc&efnto^f *• ^■^ f^S); and various ess^s1208 ?7lg —(weai-^ fresh w I. VALLEY OF NILE II. NILE AND EUPHRATES
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MAPS OF (i.) COURSE OF NILE, AND (ii.) • NILE AND EUPHRATES* INDEX TO NAMES Parentheses indicating articles that refer to the place-names aie in certain cases added. The alphabetical arrange-ment ignores prefixes : el ( the), J. (/ebel, mt.), L. (lake), tell ( mound), wddy (valley). Abu Hamed, i. B4Abu Simbel, i. A3 (Egypt, § 37)Abydos, i. A2 (Egypt, § 44)Alalia, ii. A2 (Cyprus, § i)L. Albert, ii. A5Alexandria, i. Aitell el-Amarna, i. A2Amor, ii, A2 (Canaan, § 8)(Anti), i. B 3 (Ethiopia, § 4)Arko (Island), i. A4Aswan, i. A3 Asyut, i. A2 (Egypt, §§ 3, 6)Atbara (river), i. B4 Babil, ii. B2 Bahr el-Ghazal, ii. A5 Bahren I., ii. B3 jebel Barkal, i. A4 el-Behneseh, i. A2 Beni Hasan, i. A2 (Egypt, § 50) Berber, i. B4 Bitter Lakes, i. Ai Blue Nile, ii. A4 Cairo, i. Ai 1° Cataract, i. A3 2° Cataract, i. A3 3^ Cataract, i. A4 4** Cataract, i. A4 5° Cataract, i. B4 6* Cataract, i. B4 (Ethiopia, § 4) Dakke, i. A3Damietta, i, AiL. Dembaa, ii. A4Dendera, i. A2ed-Derr, i. A3 Ekhmlm, i01084084.1222.emory.edu

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