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unusual facts about Isidore of Charax


Isidore of Charax

-- cf Schoff --> the word 'Charax' merely means "palisade", and there were several fortified towns that bore the name 'Charax'.


Kangavar

had been associated with a comment by Isidore of Charax, that refers to a "temple of Artemis" (Parthian Stations 6) at "Concobar" in Lower Medea, on the overland trade route between the Levant and India.

Pearl hunting

Journey Around Parthia by Isidore of Charax, a 1st-century geographer from the city of Charax on the northern end of the Persian Gulf, deals with the subject of pearl fishing.


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