The Greeks in Bactria and India c24.7

c24.7

Ptolemy VI, 18 adds little; native names apart, he gives three towns in Carmania—Alexandria, Carmania Metropolis (certainly Kerman), and Harmouza (? Harmozia); this last is doubtless Pliny’s Portus Macedonum among the Harmozaei, and, as will presently appear, it was probably Omana. Ptolemy’s Harmouza is the Harmoza Regia of the Ravennate geographer; this ought to mean that it was once somebody’s capital. Of course neither Harmozia nor Portus Macedonum (p. 13) was its official name.