Zabatus
Ζάβατος
Zabatus (Ζάβατος), a river of Assyria, first noticed by Xenophon (Xen. Anab. 2.5.1, 3.3.6), and the same as the Lycus of Polybius (5.51), Arrian (Arr. Anab. 3.15), and Strabo (ii. p.79, xvi. p. 737). It is called Zabas by Ammianus (18.14) and Zerbis by Pliny (6.26. s. 30). There can be no doubt that it is now represented by the Greater Záb, a river of considerable size, which, rising in the mountains on the confines of Armenia and Kurdistán, flows into the Tigris a little to the S. of the great mound of Nimrúd (Tavernier, 2.100.7; Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, i. p. 192.)
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.