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Headword: Asphaltitis limnê
Adler number: alpha,4296
Translated headword: Bituminous Lake
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[A/the place] whence bitumen comes. Bitumen is a dessicative, like pitch. And doctors also use this.
Also [sc. attested is the noun] a)sfa/ltwsis ["laying over with bitumen"], [meaning] pitching-over.
Search [also] under Adiabene.[1]
Greek Original:
Asphaltitis limnê: entha hê asphaltos ginetai. asphaltos de xêrion esti pittêi homoion. chrôntai de tautêi kai hoi iatroi. kai Asphaltôsis, hê pissôsis. zêtei en tôi Adiabênê.
Notes:
The headword phrase, "Bituminous Lake", was the ancient name for the Dead Sea: see e.g. Diodorus Siculus 19.98, cf. 2.48.6; Strabo 16.2.42. For "dessicative," see xi 64.
[1] alpha 470. (Adiabene is in present-day Iraq, i.e. a different location for bitumen.)
Keywords: definition; geography; medicine; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 February 2002@14:39:02.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 6 February 2002@04:26:27.
Nicholas Fincher (Added note) on 15 July 2003@02:43:51.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 26 April 2012@07:16:04.
David Whitehead on 2 September 2015@05:39:55.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 12 December 2020@22:42:42.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 12 December 2020@22:46:30.

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