VI. Mesopotamia and Syria
Rivers and Lakes
165-168 The river system is more accurately drawn than on CA and CE, inasmuch as the Euphrates and Tigris join before reaching the Persian Gulf. On CA they enter the Gulf separately; on CE the Euphrates swings around into Egypt, entering the Nile just above Babilonia (Cairo). All three maps show a connection between the Euphrates and Mediterranean through the Orontes, but only Leardo makes the Jordan communicate with the Euphrates. On CA and CD an island, Zizera (see also [9]), on CD said to be the site of Nineveh, is shown in the Euphrates, but on CE and Leardo this has become a lake. On CA the three lakes along the Jordan are labeled from N to S: Aquaron (=Lake Hule), Mar de Gallilea (=Sea of Galilee), and Mar Gamora (sea of Gomorrah,=Dead Sea).
165 f. tigris.
166 f. eufrates.
167 f. Jordano.
168 f ... soldi|no: =Orontes (Kret., Port., 670).
Edifices
(A) Along the Tigris
169 moxor: Moror, CA; Moxor, Dalorto map (La R., i, 64);=Mosul (ibid.).