| This poeticised periplus resulted in a confused amateur's account of the coastal regions of the known world. |
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| It is believed to have appeared within a periplus by the geographer and explorer Pytheas of Massalia, but no copies of this work survive. |
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| As the periplus was a sort of ship's log, he probably did reach the Vistula. |
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| The few fragments that have survived indicate that this material was a significant part of the periplus, possibly kept as the ship's log. |
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| Mela's descriptive method follows ocean coasts, in the manner of a periplus, probably because it was derived from the accounts of navigators. |
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| One on Europe, is essentially a periplus of the Mediterranean, describing each region in turn, reaching as far north as Scythia. |
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| The portolan combined the exact notations of the text of the periplus or pilot book with the decorative illustrations of a medieval T and O map. |
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| A former editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration, Leece was commissioned by publisher Periplus Editions last September to examine the global appetite for chinoiserie. |
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| The other book, on Asia, is arranged similarly to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea of which a version of the 1st century CE survives. |
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| The Periplus also describes how Hippalus first discovered the direct route from the Red Sea to India. |
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| Among its oldest written attestations, Berber appears as an ethnonym in the 1st century AD Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. |
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| Details of this trading across the Indian Ocean have been passed down in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. |
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| The kingdom is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as an important market place for ivory, which was exported throughout the ancient world. |
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