Tigris river
place · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Tigris · headwaters of the Tigris river
in the texts
Anabasis
River from which canals flow toward the Euphrates.
This trench extended up through the plain for a distance of twelve parasangs, reaching to the wall of Media, [Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river;
for, as I now ascertain, between us and the King is the Tigris, a navigable river, which we could not cross without boats—and boats we have none.
To be sure, in the course of their passage Glus did appear, with some others, watching to see if they were crossing the river, but once he had seen, he went riding off.
The Histories
Major river of Mesopotamia linked to the Gyndes and to Babylon's irrigation canals.
it runs towards where the sun rises in winter, from the Euphrates to another river, the Tigris, on which stood the city of Ninus.
When Cyrus reached the Gyndes river on his march to Babylon, which rises in the mountains of the Matieni and flows through the Dardanean country into another river, the Tigris, that again passes the city of Opis and empties into the Red Sea —when, I say, Cyrus tried to cross the Gyndes, which was navigable there, one of his sacred white horses dashed recklessly into the river trying to get through …