Magassa
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Magassa was an Arabian tribe mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Magsi = Magassa (Pliny.vi.35)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Ethiopia.... On the African side5 we find mentioned, either what is another place with the same name of Tacompsos, or else a part of the one before-mentioned, and after it Moggore, Sæa, Edos, Plenariæ, Pinnis, Magassa, Buma, Linthuma, Spintum, Sydop, the Censi, Pindicitora, Acug, Orsum, Sansa, Maumarum, Urbim, the town of Molum, by the Greeks called Hypaton6, Pagoarca, Zmanes, at which point elephants begin to be found, the Mambli, Berressa, and Acetuma; there was formerly a town also called Epis, over against Meroë, which had, however, been destroyed before Bion wrote.
5 Or western side of the Nile, between Syene and Meroë.
6 υπατὸν, the "supreme," or perhaps the "last."