1 H. Zotenberg, La chronique de Jean, eveque de Nikiou (Paris, 1883), 301 (Ethiopic, on the basis of two of the four manuscripts), 416 (French); R. H. Charles, The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (London, 1916), 163 (quoted here, modified). On John’s text, see W. E. Crum, “Notes of Recent Publications,” JEA 4 (1917): 207–209; M. Rodinson, “Notes sur le texte de Jean de Nikiu,” in IV Congresso internazionale di studi etiopici (Rome, 1974), 127–37; J.-M. Carrie, “Jean de Nikiu et sa Chronique,” in Evenement, recit, histoire officielle, ed. N. Grimal and M. Baud (Paris, 2003), 155–72; G. Fiaccadori, “John of Nikiu,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History I, ed. D. Thomas and B. Roggema (Leiden 2009) 209–18; A. Soldati, “Copto apotriths: greco topoteretes?” ParPass 65 (2010): 127–36. I am most grateful to Gianfranco Fiaccadori and Lucas von Rompay for guidance about the Ethiopic, the manuscripts, and the bibliography. Abbreviations used here follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. (Oxford, 2012), xxvi–liii. with the inscription: “This river will destroy many of the buildings of the city.”