Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Jasonium (2)

by William Smith

JASO'NIUM (τὸ Ἰασόνιον, Ptol. vi. 2. § 4; Strab. xi. p. 526), a mountain in Media, which extended in a NW. direction from the M. Parachoatras (M. Elwend), formmg the connecting link between the Taurus and the outlying spurs of the Antitaurus. It is placed by Ptolemy between the Orontes and the Coronus. [ V. ]