Note 113 — ON ORIENTAL CARPETS

Pliny, Herodotus, and Strabo include as within the bounds of Assyria those countries over which its sway had at times ascendency; the whole of Babylonia, all Mesopotamia, a portion of Mount Zagroo, modern Kurdistan, all Syria as far as Cilicia, Judea, and Phoenicia, and during the seventh century B.C., Lydia, Cyprus, and Egypt on the west, and part of Media on the east, with Babylonia and part of Arabia on the south.