Red Sea
Strabon, Geographia
Passus 16, 4, 02 [a] (C 767): ὁ Ἀράβιὸς κόλπος
| Date: | AD 15 - 23 about? |
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| Status: | kolpos |
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| Details: | 'But I return to Eratosthenes, who next sets forth his opinions concerning Arabia. He says conserning the northerly, or desert, part of Arbia, which lies between Arabia Felix and Koile Syria and Iudaea, extending as far as the recess (mychos) of the Arabian Gulf, that from the City of Heroes / Heroopolis, which forms a recess (mychos) of the Arabian Gulf near the Nile, the distance in the direction of the Petra of the Nabataeans to Babylon is five thousand six hundred stadia, ...' |
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