The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . lighters and far from the town are the remains of what isbelieved to have been a Phoenician city, Shammish. *The ruins now to be seen there are insignifi-icemaan cant, having shared the fate of so many other Remains. ° ruins in being used as a quarry, the marblebeing burned for lime! The name Shammish, which isalso that given to several places in Egypt, is said to befrom the Arabic in shammish, sun-burnt, and it has beensuggested that it was founded by sun-worshippers fromthat country, which must have been long before the t
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . lighters and far from the town are the remains of what isbelieved to have been a Phoenician city, Shammish. *The ruins now to be seen there are insignifi-icemaan cant, having shared the fate of so many other Remains. ° ruins in being used as a quarry, the marblebeing burned for lime! The name Shammish, which isalso that given to several places in Egypt, is said to befrom the Arabic in shammish, sun-burnt, and it has beensuggested that it was founded by sun-worshippers fromthat country, which must have been long before the timeof the Arabs, f Yet the equivalent in Hebrew and Phoe-nician would probably be but slightly different. It issuggested that Shammish was founded by one of the fourBerber tribes, Zanata, Ketama, Sanhaja and Hawara, whocame to Mauretania long before the Arab invasions. ?* Mentioned by Idreesi, who makes no allusion to Laraiche. I cf. ]ei. 13. Beth-Shemesh ^ Ilouse-of-the-Sun =; Ileliopolis. Ali Bev. ^ Lemikuske. ?• Ibn Khaldun, 152 LARAICHE In a thorough description of the Bashahk of Laraiche, published in the Bulletin of the Madrid Geographical Society in 1883—4, which is the most complete loiougi ^^^ rehable account yet published of any partDescriptton. ? ^ ^ , of Morocco, Sr. de Cuevas, formerly Spanish Vice-Consul at Laraiche, gives some very interesting in-formation about this place. He points out that the nameis neither pure Arabic nor Berber. Syria, he reminds us,is called Sham after Shem, it:: peoples ancestor, wor-shipped as Jupiter Ammon, and suggests that as Kushwas the son of Shem, to this may be due the namesof both Shammish and the river Lekkus. It is beHevedby some that Shammish was one of the Carthaginiancities founded by Hanno in his celebrated voyage, about500 Pliny records the founding by Claudius Caesar in50 , of Lixion, 32,000 paces from Zilia (Azila),-which is just the distance to Laraiche. TheVandals must have possessed it betw
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