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La « carte d’Artémidore » ? Le delta des Ptolémées!

  • Jean-Yves Carrez-Maratray EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: October 8, 2019
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Abstract

As some scholars have already suggested, the « Artemidorus map » does not depict a Spanish landscape, but a huge river delta. This article argues in favour of the Nile delta in Ptolemaic times. The three main river courses at the centre of the map correspond exactly to what Ps.Skylax (340 BC) called the « Sebennytic », « Mendesian » and « Phatnitic » mouths (stomata). Some peculiarities, like the Bubastis island and the Red Sea canal, seem to confirm this identification.

Published Online: 2019-10-08
Published in Print: 2019-06-01

© 2019 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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