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Title:The periplus of the Erythrean Sea
Editor:Huntingford, G.W.B.ISNI
Year:1980
Volume:151
Pages:225
Language:English
Series:Works issued by the Hakluyt Society (ISSN 0072-9396)
City of publisher:London
Publisher:The Hakluyt society
Geographic terms:Egypt
Sudan
Eritrea
Subjects:society
prehistory
Abstract:Sometime between A.D. 95 and 130 a trader, possibly a shipmaster, wrote this trader's guide to the coast of the Erythrean Sea (=the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean), giving information about the ports, harbours, roadsteds, and marts, together with their imports and exports, as well as navigational aids such as how to enter difficult harbours, and how to recognise the signs of coming storms and the approach of land. Agatharkhides of Knidos, a grammarian of the 2nd cent. B.C., wrote a book 'On the Erythrean Sea' which is now lost and survives only in an epitome made by Photios.
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