Dascusa
Δασκούσα
Dascusa (Δασκούσα, Ptol. 5.7.2, the common reading is Δασκούτα), a fortress in lesser Armenia, upon the river Euphrates, 75 M. P. from Zimara (Plin. Nat. 5.20), and 45 M.P. to the N. of Ciaca (Peut. Tab. comp. Anton. Itin.) It was garrisoned by the Ala Aureliana
(Not. Imp. cxxvii.) and has been identified with the ferry and lead mines of Kebbán Ma'dén, the points where the Kará Su is joined by the Murád Cháï at about 270 miles from its source. (Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. x. pp. 800, 823, 831, 858; Journ. Geog. Soc. vol. vi. p. 203; Chesney, Exped. Euphrat. vol. i. p. 41, vol. 3.271.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.