Marcian of Heraclea (3th century AD)
Periplus of the Outer Sea
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Taken from: Youssouf Kamal: Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti
Of the left parts of Asia, that is Happy Arabia and the Erythreen Sea and after that the Persian Gulf and the whole Indian Sea up to the people of China and up to the end of the known world we will go around exactly and measure it in stades, but of the right part of Libya up to the cape called Prason and up to the island of Menouthias, we will give the names of the towns and harbours. We will also mention the names of the seas, the gulfs, the promontories and the islands but we add to the distances the amount of stades in big lines; because this is the right part which is made clear to us through measuring.....
Periplus of the right side: The Arabian Gulf. Of the Erythrean Sea and the Indian Sea.
.........After the Erythrean Sea one who continues south keeping the land on his right the mountain Elaphas and the land Aromatophore after that the land of the people called Barbars and the sea called Barbar Sea in which several gulfs and the spaces of Azania which are called that way, and the first of these gulfs that are known is called Apocope, followed by a small and a big beach then a second gulf up to cape Raphton.
Then follows the sea called Bracheia (undeep sea) and a very big gulf around it inhabited by the Barbars called Anthropophages. At the end of the gulf is found a very big promontory which is called cape Prason, and the island Menounthias which is not far from the promontory.