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An account of the same flood can be found in another historiographical source, the Chronicle of Zuqnin, also known as Chronicle of Ps.-Dionysius of Tell Mahre, under the year 2232 of Abraham (ed. Chabot 1927a; see Chabot 1927b; Witakowski 1996; Harrak 1999 and 2017 for English translation). This is a universal chronicle, beginning with the creation of the world and covering the period until 775 CE, the time of its composition, and is a very rich source for the study of the Roman Near East. For instance, it describes an ancient pagan, and possibly orgiastic, cult in Edessa (Chabot 1927a: 256–257 and 259; English translation in Trombley and Watt 2000: 28 and 32 with notes; Harrak 2017). Its sources include Eusebius of Caesarea and Socrates of Constantinople, but also various Syriac texts otherwise lost, including the Ecclesiastical History by John of Ephesus (sixth century). Other historiographical sources that have been used in the study of the history of the kingdom of Edessa and the Roman Near East are the Chronography by Elia of Nisibis (eleventh century), which covers the period 25–1018 CE and brings together ecclesiastical and political events (ed. Brooks and Chabot 1910, with Latin translation; French translation in Delaporte 1910), and the monumental world chronicle by Michael the Syrian (twelfth century), which covers the period from the origin of the world to 1195 CE and relies on a range of historiographical and documentary sources that are now lost (Syriac text and French translation are in Chabot 1899).