ASTE´LEPHUS
ASTE´LEPHUS (
Ἀστέλεφος), one of the small rivers of Colchis, rising in the Caucasus, and falling into the Euxine 120 stadia S. of Dioscurias or Sebastopolis, and 30 stadia N. of the river Hippus. (Arrian.
Perip. Pont. Eux. 9, 10;
Plin. Nat. 6.4.)
It is also called Stelippon (
Geogr. Rav.) and Stempeo (
Tab. Peut.). Different modern writers attempt to identify it with different streams of the many on this coast: namely; the
Markhoula or
Tamüsch, the
Mokri or
Aksu, the
Shijam or
Keleuhol, and the
Kodor. (Ukert, vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 204; Mannert, vol. iv. p. 394; Forbiger, vol. ii. p. 443.)
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