[5] Several times in Pliny, Nat. Hist.
[6] CIL. vi. 1797.
[7] Hist. Osrhoena et Edessena, p. 33.
[8] Written Ὀσρόης in Dio Cassius, Excerpta, lxviii. 22.
[9] See the reff. collected by M. Streck, M.V.G., 1906. The name occurs in the same company in the fragmentary tablet K. 1904. The mountain Ru-u-[a], mentioned thrice by Tiglath-pileser IV., is placed by Billerbeck near Hamadān (Sandschak Suleimania, 82, 86, and map, 1898).
[10] See further Payne Smith, Thesaurus 110 b.
[11] In translating from the Greek; also in Ephraim (Duval, Hist. 22, n. 4) and the Acts of Sharbīl (Cureton, Anc. Syr. Doc. 41).
[12] On a possible restoration under the name of “Antioch on the Callirrhoė” see above.
[13] The Edessans used to call their town “the city,” or “the daughter,” “of the Parthians” (Cureton, Anc. Syr. Doc., 41 ult., 97 l. 7; 106 l. 12).
[14] The portion of the Mesopotamian steppe under Osrhoënic influence was, according to Nöldeke (Zeitsch. Ass. xxi. 153, 1908), called ‘Arābh in Syriac.