Muza and Musa and Mousa ( Ancient Greek: Μύζα and Μοῦσα and Μοῦζα and Μούζα) was an important emporion on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea in Arabia Felix near the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in modern Yemen. [1] [2] [3] Now it is inland from the modern port city of Mokha due to the recession of the coast. [1]
The city was mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, [4] Pliny the Elder's Natural History [5] and Ptolemy's Geography. [1] [4]
Pliny describe the Musa as the third port of Arabia Felix. [5] [1] The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea has a detailed description of its trade. [1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MUZA
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Musa
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Arabia
- ^ a b Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 7, 16, 17, 21, 24, 28
- ^ a b Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, 6.26