This article is recently republished here:
https://www.academia.edu/23563101/Prof._M._S._Megalommatis_Hadhramaut_the_Frankincense-bearing_Country_he_Libanotoforos_Khora_
Excerpt:
Immediately after Arabia Felix, is located a long coast and a gulf for more than 2000 stades length. The Nomads and the Ichthyophagoi (Fish-eaters) inhabit these areas, gathered in small towns. Beyond the end of the gulf is located Kane, another coastal port of call, which belongs to the Frankincense-bearing country, where reigns Eleazos. Nearby lie two uninhabited islands, the island of the Birds, and Troullas, in a distance of 120 stades from Kane. Deep in the inland, is located Saubatha, the capital of the kingdom, where resides the king. All the frankincense produced throughout the country is transported to Kane that serves as the main storehouse. There are many ways of transportation, either loaded on camels, or laden on small vessels made out of leather paraphernalia, or fraught on ships. Kane has strong contacts with the ports of call on the other side of the sea, with Barygaza, as well as with the harbours of Scythia, Omana and the neighboring Persia.
Here is imported from Egypt limited quantity of wheat and wine, as precisely is the case at Mouza, and in addition one can find types of Yemenite clothing, either with the common decoration or without decoration or with stamped decoration that is the largest part of the trade. Equally imported are copper, tin, corals and styrax officinalis, as well as all sorts of merchandises imported at Mouza. For the king are made available silverware with curved decoration, currency in cash, and in addition horses, statues, and several types of clothing without decoration. The correct time to sail from Egypt until here is the same as we mentioned for Mouza, and even earlier.
Based on the text of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (or Periplus of the Red Sea), Prof. Megalommatis analyzes the tremendous historical significance of Hadhramaut, which was named the ‘Frankincense-bearing Country’ (Η Λιβανωτοφόρος Χώρα) in the Antiquity.
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