Muza (emporion)

Muza and Musa and Mousa (Ancient Greek: Μύζα and Μοῦσα and Μοῦζα and Μούζα) was an important emporion on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea in Arabia Felix near the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in modern Yemen.[1][2][3] Now it is inland from the modern port city of Mokha due to the recession of the coast.[1]

The city was mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea,[4] Pliny the Elder's Natural History[5] and Ptolemy's Geography.[1][4]

Pliny describe the Musa as the third port of Arabia Felix.[5][1] The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea has a detailed description of its trade.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MUZA
  2. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Musa
  3. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Arabia
  4. ^ a b Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 7, 16, 17, 21, 24, 28
  5. ^ a b Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, 6.26