Ὀσροήνη

Osrhoene, Osroene

Translated by David Whitehead3 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 16 words

Name of a city,¹ or of a place.²
Also [sc. attested is] Osrhoes, a proper name.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀσροήνη· ὄνομα πόλεως, ἢ τόπου. καὶ Ὀσρόης, ὄνομα κύριον.

Betacode

*)osroh/nh: o)/noma po/lews, h)\ to/pou. kai\ *)osro/hs, o)/noma ku/rion.

1No 'city' called Osrhoene is known. Rather, the region of Osrhoene (see below) had as its capital the city of Edessa, present-day Urhai. The city was also called 'Orroene' in Greek, 'Orrei/Orrhei' in Latin. See OCD4 Edessa. ↩
2Osrhoene was a region of NW Mesopotamia (present-day Syria/Turkey). It broke away from the Seleucids around 100 BCE and was a buffer state between the Roman and Parthian empires, but eventually became Roman. Cf. phi 827, and see generally OCD4 Osroene. ↩
3Osrhoes was an Iranian name. Besides the eponymous founder of Osrhoene, it was most famously borne by the Parthian king Osrhoes (109-128) who was at war with Trajan and at peace with Hadrian. See alpha 3128. ↩

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