Welcome to Navigating the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a valuable digital supplement to the study of the “Periplus Maris Erythraei!”

By providing detailed information on each site and its location, as well as original maps, this website creates digital experiences of the spatial information given in this 1st-2nd c. CE text. The focus is to create a centralized digital space where one can engage with the text and the sites there described and the scholarship on such sites.

The digital material provided in this website includes a gazetteer of the Periplus, with essential information for every site described in the text, and maps built using QGIS.

Navigate the map below to familiarize yourself with the sites: