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Strabon, Geographia

Passus 16, 4, 24 [d] (C 781): ἡ Ἀλεξάνδρεια

Date: AD 15 - 23 about?
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Details: 'but at present time they are for the most part transported by the Nile to Alexandria; and they are landed from Arabia and India at Myos Hormos; and then they are conveyed by camels over to Koptos of the Thebais, which is situated on a canal of the Nile, and then to Alexandria.'
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