PESLA
PESLA or
PESCLA (Not. Imp. 100.28, vol. i. p. 75, ed. Böcking), is probably the border-fortress in the N. of the Thebaid, which Ptolemy (
4.5.71) calls
Πασσάλων or
Πάσσαλος. Pesla stood on the right bank of the Nile, and was the quarters of a German company (turma) of cavalry (D'Anville,
Mém. sur l'Egypte, p. 190).
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