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Jericho

Modern name
misplaced along the Nile
The Biblical city of Jericho appears only once in the Sfera corpus (Pad1), on the western side of the Nile River south of Cairo. Since the real city of Jericho is actually west of Jerusalem in the Jordan Valley, this placement is probably a mistake produced by confusion of gericho with the Gion River.
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.

Variant spellings of Jericho in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
gericho Pad1
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Jericho.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/jericho/.