ZA´BATUS
ZA´BATUS (
Ζάβατος), a river of Assyria, first noticed by Xenophon (
Xen. Anab. 2.5.1,
3.3.6), and the same as the Lycus of Polybius (
5.51), Arrian (
Arr. Anab. 3.15), and Strabo (
ii. p.79, xvi. p. 737).
It is called Zabas by Ammianus (18.14) and Zerbis by Pliny (
6.26. s. 30).
There can be no doubt that it is now represented by the
Greater Záb, a river of considerable size, which, rising in the mountains on the confines of
Armenia and
Kurdistán, flows into the Tigris a little to the S. of the great mound of
Nimrúd (Tavernier, 2.100.7; Layard,
Nineveh and its Remains, i. p. 192.)
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