Netherlands/Holland: Map of the Indian Ocean in antiquity based on the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea. Published by Jan Jansson (1588-1664), Amsterdam, 1658. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea is a Greco-Roman periplus, written in Greek, describing navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice along the coast of the Red Sea, and others along Northeast Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The text has been ascribed to different dates between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, but a mid-1st century date is now the most commonly accepted.

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