Clysma

Clysma, Klysma or Qulzum was a village situated in northeast Egypt at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. Renowned as a transit point for the Roman trade route on land between the Mediterranean Sea (Pelousion) and the Red Sea, the port city of Suez today traces back to this village that existed around the 3rd century BC.

Sources

• http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Suez_Klysma.html
• http://www.unc.edu/awmc/downloads/aegyptusByzLrg.jpg
• The Book of Exodus Univ. Cambridge Press, 6th Edition. p128
• Philip Mayerson (1996). "Egeria and Peter the Deacon on the Site of Clysma (Suez)". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. American Research Center in Egypt. 33: 61–64. JSTOR 40000605. 
• Philip Mayerson (1996). "The Port of Clysma (Suez) in Transition from Roman to Arab Rule". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. The University of Chicago Press. 55 (2): 119–126. JSTOR 546035.