Berenike (Deire)
Berenike epi Deires ( Greek Βερενίκη ἐπὶ Δειρῆς ) was a Ptolemaic port city on the Red Sea, in Bab-el-Mandeb near Cape Deirê near Djibouti . It was probably founded by a successor to Ptolemy II . According to Pliny the Elder , the city was south of Berenice Troglodytica and Berenike Panchrysos . Strabon mentions the mangroves that were to be found there on the coast ( Geographica 14.4.14)
literature
- Lionel Casson : The Periplus Maris Erythraei: text, translation, and commentary. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1989, ISBN 0-691-04060-5 .
- Getzel M. Cohen: The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley Calif. 2006, ISBN 0-520-24148-7 .
- George Fadlo Hourani: Arab seafaring in the Indian Ocean. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1951.
- GWB Huntingford (Ed.): The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, by an unknown author: with some extracts from Agatharkhides 'On the Erythraean Sea' (= Works issued by the Hakluyt Society . 2nd series, No. 151). Hakluyt Society, London 1980.
- Katja Mueller: Settlements of the Ptolemies: City foundations and new settlement in the Hellenistic World (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 43). Peeters, Leuven 2006, ISBN 90-429-1709-1 .
- D. Schlingloff: Indian sailors in Roman times. In: Hermann Müller-Karpe (Ed.) On the historical significance of early seafaring. Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-09042-7 , pp. 51-82.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katja Mueller: Settlements of the Ptolemies: City foundations and new settlement in the Hellenistic World. Peeters 2006, p. 154.