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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2824460, member: 42773&quot;]Here comes that fat kid again. Everybody&#039;s lapped him, but he&#039;s still lumbering along, sweating like a stuck pig.</p><p><br /></p><p>E is for <b>Edessa</b>, a city in upper Mesopotamia, founded by Seleucus I c. 302 BC. It was the capital of the kingdom of Osroene from about 132 BC until it came under complete Roman rule around AD 242. The Romans, however, were a dominant presence much earlier. It was captured and sacked by Trajan and later by Lucius Verus. Caracalla was assassinated on the road from Edessa to Carrhae by one of his guards in AD 217. Edessa was also the center of the vigorously growing early Syriac Christian Church. It&#039;s really a fascinating ancient city and I recommend reading the wiki article in its entirety <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edessa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edessa" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the same article I found this wonderful map that shows the ancient cities of southern Asia Minor and the northern Levant...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664190[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a small bronze of Elagabalus from Edessa with Tyche reverse...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]664191[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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