Suhr´tuhs
Ancient name of two bays on the northern coast of Africa south of Sicily, between Cyrene and Carthage. The Greater Syrtis, now the Gulf of Sidra off Libya, was to the east; the Lesser Syrtis, now the Gulf of Gabes, to the west. Both held navigational dangers dreaded by sailors in antiquity (
Opposite: The reading of the Torah, perhaps by Ezra; panel from the third-century CE synagogue at Dura-Europos.