Thumata

Thumata (Greek: Θουμάτα, Thoumata),Ptol. vi. 7. § 33.Plin. NH. vi. 28. s. 32. or Thamatha,Not. Imp. Rom. § 22, p. 37. was a town of classical antiquity.

History According to Ptolemy, Thumata was a town of Arabia Felix, but Pliny puts it on the Tigris.Plin. NH. vi. 28. s. 32. According to Pliny, it was a distant ten days' sail from Petra, and subject to the king of the Characeni.Dyer 1857, p. 1191.

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Dyer, Thomas H. (1857). "Thumata". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2: Iabadius–Zymethus. London: Walton and Maberly. p. 1191.