Gerrum
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Gerrum was an Arabian town mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Gercha = Gerrum (Pliny.vi.33).
- Gerwal = Gerrum (Pliny.vi.33).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions 'The Gulfs Of The Red Sea'....The localities of this region are as follow: Either from Pelusium across the sands, in doing which the only method of finding the way is by means of reeds fixed in the earth, the wind immediately effacing all traces of footsteps: by the route which begins two miles beyond Mount Casius, and at a distance of sixty miles enters the road from Pelusium, adjoining to which road the Arabian tribe of the Autei dwell; or else by a third route, which leads from Gerrum, and which they call Adipsos8, passing through the same Arabians, and shorter by nearly sixty miles, but running over rugged mountains and through a district destitute of water. All these roads lead to Arsinoë9, a city founded in honour of his sister's name, upon the Gulf of Carandra, by Ptolemy Philadelphus, who was the first to explore Troglodytice, and called the river which flows before Arsinoë by the name of Ptolemæus.
8 The "not thirsty" route, so called by way of antiphrasis.
9 See B. v. c. 9.