River
Fl. Nasabath
Oued bou Sellam · Oued Summam (Barrington) · Sahel (Miller)
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The river Nasabath reaches the sea east of Saldae in Mauretania Caesariensis and is identified with the Oued Soummam in Algeria. The map draws its course flowing from a mountain range but leaves it unnamed. The name comes from the geographer Ptolemy, who places its mouth between Saldae and Choba and, by mistake, lists the same river a second time as Audus, after a nearby cape. A faint trace of lettering may survive near the mouth. Stranger still is a line running from the other end of the mountains towards the sea. The copyist seems to have begun it and then tried to erase it, perhaps a second river, perhaps a slip.