Message #32383

[Qoais]

It looks to me like he is not drawing this from experience or even from an earlier map.  He was a well travelled man as well as a well educated one, and it's hard to believe he drew this for any scientific purpose.  If so, then is wasn't as knowledgeable as he is given credit for.  In the map above, he places the Red Sea below what he thinks is Africa.  In Wikipedia, (type in Herodotus and click on the first title) the map shows that area as the Erythean sea, and the sea more to the west, he called the Austral Sea.  If he knew that the Phoecian sailors had the sun to the right while sailing westwards, as they circumnavigated Africa, he should have known Africa was a whole lot bigger than he drew it. 

Which one of the words on that map means 'Asia"?