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The name of the important Seleucid city which occupied the site of the ancient Carchemish is still uncertain. German scholars have identified it with the Oropus or Europus of classical geography, but as is pointed out by Commander Hogarth, who has discussed the question very fully in Carchemish, pt. i, pp. 19 sqq. (1914), if Oropus is identified with the town placed by the Peutinger Table between Birejik and the Sajur, and this again is identified with Carchemish, the mileage attached to it will not agree with the actual facts. There is the further difficulty that, although one of the modern names given to the site is Jerabîs, which could be derived from Oropus, or rather its later Greek deformation Europus, the more usual and probably older name is Jerablûs, which is Hierapolis.
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page 49 note 1 Nin-lil is said to be “the queen of heaven of Carchemish”. Her Hittite name was Khebe or Khiba.
page 49 note 2 Ramsay, , Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, p. 144.Google Scholar
page 49 note 3 The name of the Lycian city Patara would not be connected if Stephanus of Byzantium is right in saying that it was the Lycian word for “a chest”. Pteria reappears, letter for letter, in Puterias, which an inscription of the Vannic king Menuas (Sayce, xxxiii) gives as the ancient name of Palu on the northern bank of the Euphrates (the modern Murad-su), about midway between Malatiyeh and Van. It lay near Gupa, the Assyrian Kuppu, Khuzâna (new Khozan), which is probably the Khuzarina of the Assyrians, and Aassa, called Aassata in the inscriptions of Boghaz Keui. A variant form of the word teira probably recurs in Qulbi-tarris, one of the cities of Melitene conquered by the Vannic king Sarduris II (Sayce, 1). Qulbi-tarris must be the Kholma-dara of classical geography, Qulbi or Kholma being the deity. Khalmis of the Hittite hieroglyphic inscriptions.
page 51 note 1 In a Boghaz Keui text (Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi, i, 22Google Scholar, Rev. 6) the land of Subari comes between Aleppo (Khalba) and Kinza.
page 51 note 2 Maspero identifies it with the Greek Urma Gigantos. Gigantos is probably an echo of the old name of the district Gagati.