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Map Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf. Asiae Tabula VI: Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam Ac Sinum Persicum

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Title

  • Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf.

Other Title

  • Asiae Tabula VI: Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam Ac Sinum Persicum

Summary

  • This map from Ptolemy's Geographia was published in 1578 and reprinted on many occasions between 1584 and 1704. It is much more finely engraved than maps in previous Ptolemy editions. The map mentions several places in present-day Qatar (Abucei, Leaniti, Themi, Asateni, and Aegei). Names added to this edition of the map include Mesmites Sinus, Idicar, and a second Idicar, located in present-day Kuwait. This name is similar to the island of "Ichara" found near Magorum Sinus. Contemporary research has confirmed that Kharj is the island known to the ancients as "Icara." One of the major peninsulas shown on the map is named "Chersonesi Extrema," near Catara. Modern scholarship has identified Chersonesos as Ra's Rakan in present-day Qatar. Ichtyophagorium Sinus is the gulf inhabited by the people identified in ancient histories as the "Fish Eaters." Claudius Ptolemaeus, known in English as Ptolemy, was an ancient mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and astrologer who was born sometime after 83 A.D., most likely in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou in Roman Egypt. He lived in Egypt and died in Alexandria around the year 168.

Names

  • Ptolemy, 2nd century Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1578.

Headings

  • -  Bahrain
  • -  Iraq
  • -  Kuwait
  • -  Oman
  • -  Qatar
  • -  Saudi Arabia
  • -  United Arab Emirates
  • -  Yemen
  • -  83 to 168
  • -  Arabian Gulf
  • -  Arabian Peninsula
  • -  Geography, Ancient
  • -  Persian Gulf
  • -  Red Sea

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 map : copperplate engraving, color ; 31 x 46 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668406

Online Format

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Ptolemy, 2Nd Century Author. Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1578] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668406/.

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Ptolemy, 2. C. A. (1578) Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668406/.

MLA citation style:

Ptolemy, 2Nd Century Author. Sixth Map of Asia: Which Includes Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1578] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668406/>.