And in the year five hundred and ninety-seven of the Arabs
... And in this year there was great scarcity in Egypt, for the Nile did not
overflow according to custom. And men ate the bodies of dead animals and
also of men. And then pestilence followed upon famine closely. And
there
was also an earthquake and it destroyed many buildings and high walls in
Damascus, and Emesa, and Hamath, and Tripoli, and Tyre, and 'Akko,
and Shamrin (Samaria), and it reached Beth Rhomaye, but it was not
violent in the East.
