NICEPHO´RIUS
NICEPHO´RIUS an affluent of the Tigris, which washed the walls of Tigranocerta (
Tac. Ann. 15.4), now the
Bitlís-chäí, which rises at
Bash Khán, on the S. of
Jebel Nimrúd, and W. of
Lake Ván. (Chesney,
Exped. Euphrat. vol. i. p. 18; Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 88.) Kiepert's map identifies it with the
Jezedchane Sú. [
E.B.J]