Sirbitum
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| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (Retd.) |
Sirbitum was an Arabian town mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Sirvi = Sirbitum (Pliny.vi.35)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Ethiopia.... Beyond is the region of Sirbitum, at which the mountains terminate,27 and which by some writers is said to contain the maritime Æthiopians, the Nisacæthæ, and the Nisyti, a word which signifies "men with three or four eyes,"— not that the people really have that conformation, but because they are remarkable for the unerring aim of their arrows.
27 Marcus thinks that these mountains are those which lie to the west of the Nile, in Darfour, and Dar-Sale, or Dizzela, mentioned by Salt, in his Travels in Abyssinia.