. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Mf0 neglect of Susa by his successors, none of whomever made it their capital city. It fell into thepower of Antigonus b. c. 315. The town, but notthe citadel, was taken by Molo in his rebellionagainst Antiochus the Great, u. c. 221. At the r!iin of the Ruinit of Sum or Shunlinn (modem Sv»). 1. The high mound or citadel It) 2. The puloce. 3. The | Ruint ol the illy. Lrabian conquest of Persia, a. d. 640, it was bravc-y defended by Hormuzan. 2. Position, dec. Most Ar ly defended by . historians and comparative geographers have in-cli
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Mf0 neglect of Susa by his successors, none of whomever made it their capital city. It fell into thepower of Antigonus b. c. 315. The town, but notthe citadel, was taken by Molo in his rebellionagainst Antiochus the Great, u. c. 221. At the r!iin of the Ruinit of Sum or Shunlinn (modem Sv»). 1. The high mound or citadel It) 2. The puloce. 3. The | Ruint ol the illy. Lrabian conquest of Persia, a. d. 640, it was bravc-y defended by Hormuzan. 2. Position, dec. Most Ar ly defended by . historians and comparative geographers have in-clined to identify it with the modern Sus or Sliush,in latitude 32° 10, longitude 48° 20 E. from Grccn-. of the Great Mound or Citadel fNo. 1 on the plan) of Sua.—(From Rawl Htrvi<im, li. 385.) wich, between the Shajmr and the river of , however, have advocated the claims of Shunter,on the left bank of the Kuran, more than half adegree further E.; others have maintained thatSusan, on the right bank, fifty or sixty miles aboveShnster, is, if not the classical Susa, the Shushan ofScripture. But most now admit that Sus is therepresentative of both Susa and Shushan. TheChoaspes (Kerkhah | originally bifurcated at Pai Put,tn miles above Susa, the right arm keeping its present course, while the left (Eulacus = )flowed a little to the E. of ,and, absorbing theSliapur about twelve miles below the ruins, flowedon somewhat E. of S., and joined the Karum (Pasi-tigris) at Ahwaz. Susa thus lay between the Eulacusand the Shajmr, the latter, probably joined by ca-nals, being reckoned a part of the Eulaeus. (Seemap under Euphrates.) A few miles E. and W. ofthe city were tw
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