Mascas

MASCAS (Μασκᾶς, Xenoph. Anab. 1.5.4), a small river of Mesopotamia, mentioned by Xenophon in the march of Cyrus the Younger through that country. It flowed round a town which he calls Crosote, and was probably a tributary of the Euphrates. Forbiger imagines that it is the same as the Saocoras of Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.18.3), which had its rise in the neighbourhood of Nisibis.

(Μασκᾶς). An eastern tributary of the Euphrates in Mesopotamia.