Thumata
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Thumata or Thamatha was an Arabian town of classical antiquity.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Thamna = Thumata (Pliny.vi.32)
History
Thumata was a town of Arabia Felix, according to Ptolemy, and described by Pliny as distant ten days' sail from Petra, and subject to the king of the Characeni.[5]
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[6] mentions Arabia.... Some writers also make mention of two other cities situate at long intervals, as you sail along the Tigris, Barbatia, and then Thumata, distant from Petra, they say, ten days' sail; our merchants report that these places are subject to the king of Charax. The same writers also state, that Apamea12 is situate where the overflow of the Euphrates unites with the Tigris; and that when the Parthians meditate an incursion, the inhabitants dam up the river by embankments, and so inundate their country.
12 In Sitacene, mentioned in the preceding Chapter.
References
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