Podoukē

Information from the Periplus

Ancient Toponym: Podoukē
Place Type: Port of trade
Route: Eastern route
Next on Route: Sōpatma
Ancient Area: India
Periplus Chapter: PME, Ch. 60

Topographic info

Longitude 79.74878
Latitude 11.862228
Location Source: Pleiades

Modern Identification: Arikamedu
Modern Country: India

Passage from the Periplus

Of the ports of trade and harbors in these parts at which vessels sailing from both Limyrike and the north call, the more important, lying in a row, are the ports of trade of Kamara, Poduke, and Sopatma. They are the home ports for local boats that sail along the coast as far as Limyrike and others, called sangara, that are very big dugout canoes held together by a yoke, as well as for the very big kolandiophdnta that sail across to Chryse and the Ganges region. There is a market in these places for all the [sc. Western] trade goods imported by Limyrike, and, generally speaking, there come to them all year round both the cash originating from Egypt and most kinds of all the goods originating from Limyrike and supplied along this coast. (from the Casson translation)

Bibliography

Ancient source: Ptolemy, 7.1.14

Bibliography: Begley, Vimala. 1983. “Arikamedu Reconsidered.” American Journal of Archaeology 87 (4): 461–81.

Bibliography: Begley, Vimala. 1993. “New Investigations at the Port of Arikamedu.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 6: 93–108.

Bibliography: Begley, Vimala. 1996. The Ancient Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches 1989-1992. Publications de l’Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Mémoires Archéologiques 22. Pondichéry: Centre d’histoire et d’archéologie, École française d’Extrême-Orient; Arikamedu Excavation Project.

Bibliography: Begley, Vimala, and École française d’Extrême-Orient. 2004. The Ancient Port of Arikamedu: New Excavations and Researches, 1989-1992. Centre d’histoire et d’archéologie, École française d’Extrême-Orient.

Bibliography: Begley, Vimala. n.d. “The Dating of Arikamedu and Its Bearing on the Archaeology of Early Historical South India.”

Bibliography: DAYALAN, DURAISWAMY. 2019. “Ancient Seaports on the Eastern Coast of India: The Hub of the Maritime Silk Route Network.” Acta Via Serica 4 (1): 25–69.