Eastern desert - Myos Hormos (Quseir el-Qadim)
Strabon, Geographia
Passus 16, 4, 24 [e] (C 781): Μυὸς Ὅρμος
| Date: | AD 15 - 23 about? |
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| Status: | hormos + gen. |
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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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