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TM Geo 6148
SudanThe region ca. 250 BC - provincia: outside the Imperium RomanumThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located in the Red Sea (TM Geo 3632), south of Berenike (Bender el-Kebir) (TM Geo 416) - same as Agathonos Nesos (Sudan) (TM Geo 58)?
Status: island (in the sea): nesos; insula; quarry: metallon
Greek name(s): Ὀφιώδης - Βάζιον - *Τοπάζιον
Latin name(s): Topazos
Modern name(s): Geziret Seberget
Variants: Ophiodes - Topazos (*Topazion) - Bazion - Geziret Seberget (Zeberdjed - Zebirget - Zeberged - Jazirat Zabarjad) - Saint John's Island (île Saint-Jean)
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 403
Biblio: Cuvigny, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018, § 17-38
Map: Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 2 (St. John's or Zeberged I.); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 20 (St. John's or Zeberged I.); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 3 (St. John's or Zeberged I.); Jacotin, Carte geographique de l'Égypte, 1818, map 3 (Île des Émeraudes); Jacotin, Carte geographique de l'Égypte, 1818, map 3 (Île St. Jean); JEA 11 (1925), p. 138 pl. 11 (Topazos Insula (St John's i.)); Jomard, Carte itinéraire, 1820 (Ile dite des Émeraudes); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 8 (I. St. Jean (Zebirget))