The island of Meroe

Hi Titiea

When we were chatting some time ago, long before the last conference, we were saying that the island of Meroe was an inland island, in other words, surrounded by rivers.

In the last line of Siculus in your post, he is saying these islands were in the ocean against Arabia.  Now I realize he likely means the Red Sea as being part of the ocean as there really aren't many islands there right?  So in this case, the island being referred to as Panchea would have to be in the Red Sea - no?