In the year 4018, which was 570 according to the Seleucid era, Pappa [(and in Tzemach David it says Rav Pappa, which is a scribal error, and in Sanhedrin Yuchsin at its end it says Pasa)] the Haman arose and destroyed Nehardea [(Yuchsin, in the letter of Rashbag). Rashbag wrote in Yuchsin that then Rabbah bar Avuha, his grandfather, established academies in Shekhantziv and in Shelchi and in Mechoza, and there were Rav Yosef bar Chama, father of Rava, and Ravan, they were in the Galut of Pumbedita].