Volume 3

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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    taken for building the Pyramids of Memphis.” The moun¬ tain, mentioned by Herodotus in this passage, is evidently Mob at am: and Letopolis, Latopolis, or Litopolis, which Bryant thinks1 derived its name from those quarries (q.d. AieonoAii), being near to it, is mentioned with Heliopolis by other writers. We may now consider the circumstances of association under which Heliopolis is noticed by Strabo2:— “ These places (Phacusa and Phithom) are near to the vertex of the Delta: there is the city of Bubastus and the Bubastic Nome; and beyond this3 the Nome of Heliopolis, where the City of the Sun is situated.” After describing the temple and the antiquities of the city, he continues by giving a description of the Nile beyond the Delta ; speaking of Libya as being upon his right, and Arabia upon his left. Then he adds this remarkable observation: “ Wherefore the Helio- politan Nome is in Arabia.” After this, he introduces the Litopolitan Nome and the Babylonian fortress, as next in succession to the Heliopolitan upon the Arabian side of the river. This position of the Nomes in Lower Egypt is equally authorised by Ptolemy. He enumerates them as they occurred from north to south4, after Strabo’s method of description ; (1) See Observ. upon Ant. Hist. p. 123. Note 5. Loncl. 1767• (2) Ofiroi P oi rdiroi TrXpoid&vai rtj Kopveprj rov AeXra. Avrov e)e teal tj Bov- fiaaros icat 6 Boi//3aoTtr»/c vop,os' ical inrtp avrov 6 'H\iorro\irtjs vo/xov. 'HLpravda S’ early p rov rjXiov voXis, k. t. X. Strabon. Geog. lib. xvii. p. 1141. edit. Oxon. 1807- (3) 'Yirep avrov. Sic MS. Par. Med. iv. Vid. p. 1141. ed. Oxon. (4) Vid. Ptolem. Geog. lib. iv. p. 212. Paris, 1546. %