Red Sea

TM Geo 3632

N/AThe region ca. 250 BC - provincia: Aegyptus; outside the Imperium RomanumThe provincia ca. 200 AD - cf. Arabia (TM Geo 281); cf. Aethiopia (TM Geo 51); cf. also Sea of Reeds (TM Geo 12189)

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Status: sea: thalassa; mare; kolpos; sinus

Greek name(s): Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα - Ἀραβικὸς κόλπος
Latin name(s): mare Rubrum - sinus Arabicus - Aethiopicum mare - Trogodyticum mare
Egyptian name(s): Wȝḏ-wr?
Ethnic(s): Erythraikos - Erythraios - Erythraeus
Variants: Erythra Thalassa (Thalatta) - Rubrum Mare - Red Sea - Mer Rouge - Rotes Meer - Arabikos (Arabios) Kolpos - Arabian Gulf - Aethiopicum Mare - Trogodyticum Mare - Brachia - including the Gulf of Aden

Repertoria: Dizionario Suppl. 1, p. 114; Suppl. 4, p. 59
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 12-13 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 187 [a] (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 21 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 25 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 31 [a] (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 33 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 41 [a] (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 43 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 44 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 49 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 50 (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 53 [a] (Red Sea); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 54 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 1 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 19 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 2 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 20 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 21 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 27 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 28 (Red Sea); Ball, South-eastern Egypt, 1912, pl. 3 (Red Sea); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 1 J5-K5 (Erythr(ae)um Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 3 C4-C5 (Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 4 A1-B2 (Arabicus Sinus / Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 4 E2-E3 (Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 5 B3 (Erythr(ae)um / Indicum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 6 A5 (Erythr(ae)um / Indicum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 78 E3 (Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare - Arabicus Sinus); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 F2-G4 (Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 inset (1) (Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 81 F2 (Erythr(ae)um / Rubrum Mare); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 83 A4; Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a E4-F5 (Arabischer Meerbusen); BIFAO 7 (1909), pl. 1 (Mer Rouge); BIFAO 95 (1995), p. 209 fig. 1 (Mer Rouge); Brun e.a. 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Petra 1, 2002, p. xx (Red Sea); P. Yadin 1, 1989, p. 2 (Red Sea); Pococke, A description of the East, 1743, I, p. 1 (Mare Rubrum sive Erythraeum); Porter-Moss 4, 1934, pl. 1 (Red Sea); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 1 (plan) (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 6 (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 7 (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 7 bis (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 8 (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 9 (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 9 inset (Mer Rouge); Raimondi, Le désert oriental égyptien, 1923, pl. 9 inset (G. d'Aden); Rifaud, Carte du cours du Nil, 1830 (Mer Rouge); Rifaud, Carte du cours du Nil, 1830 inset (Mer Rouge); Said, The geology of Egypt, 1990, p. 546 (Red Sea); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 4 (Red Sea); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. 52 fig. 2.1 (Red Sea); Sidebotham / Wendrich (ed.), Berenike 1995, 1996, fig. 1-1 (Red Sea); Sidebotham / Wendrich (ed.), Berenike 1998, 2000, map (Red Sea [ter]); Speidel, Roman army studies I, 1984, p. 325 (Red Sea); Survey Department Cairo, 1907, map 1 (Red Sea); Survey Department Cairo, 1907, map 2 (Red Sea); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Mare Erythraeum)