Digba
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Digba was an ancient city in Mesopotamia on the banks of the Tigris and near its confluence with the Euphrates. [1]
Variants
Location
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Dide = Didigua = Digba (Pliny.vi.31)
- Didel = Didigua = Digba (Pliny.vi.31)
Jat Places Namesake
- Dig → Digba (Pliny.vi.31)
- Dig → Diglito (Pliny.vi.31)
History
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Tigris....There is, besides the above, another town in Mesopotamia, on the banks of the Tigris and near its confluence with the Euphrates, the name of which is Digba.1 (27.) But it will be as well now to give some particulars respecting the Tigris itself. This river rises in the region of Greater Armenia,2 from a very remarkable source, situate on a plain. The name of the spot is Elegosine3, and the stream, as soon as it begins to flow, though with a slow current, has the name of Diglito.4 When its course becomes more rapid, it assumes the name of Tigris5, given to it on account of its swiftness, that word signifying an arrow in the Median language.
1 Forbiger is of opinion that this is the same as the Didigua or Didugua of Ptolemy. It was situate below Alpamea. D'Anville takes it to be the modern Corna.
2 The modern Turcomania.
3 Now known as the Plain of Chelat, according to Parisot, extending between Chelat, a city situate on a great lake and the river Rosso, falling into the Caspian Sea.
4 Called Diglith by Josephus. Hardouin states that in his time the name given to the river by the natives was Daghela. This name is also supposed to be another form of the Hiddekel of Scripture. See Genesis ii. 14.
5 According to Bochart, this was a corruption of the Eastern name Deghel, from which were derived the forms Deger, Teger, and ultimately Tigris.
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