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Cerameicus (Kerameikos kolpos), a bay in Caria (Herod. i. 174), now
the gulf of Boudroun, so called from a town Ceramus (Keramos), which is on the
gulf. Strabo places Ceramus and Bargasa near the sea, between Cnidus and Halicarnassus,
and Ceramus comes next after Cnidus. D'Anville identifies Ceramus with a place
called Keramo, but this place does not appear to be known. (Leake, Asia Minor,
p. 225.) Ptolemy seems to place Ceramus on the south side of the bay. Some modern
maps place it on the north side; but this cannot be true, particularly if Bargasa
is rightly determined. There are medals which are assigned to Ceramus by some
numismatists.
Pliny mentions a Doridis Sinus. Now, as Doris is the country occupied
by the Dorian colonies, this name is more appropriate to the Cerameicus, on the
north side of which is Halicarnassus, and at the entrance is the island of Cos.
Pliny's words are clear, though they have been generally misunderstood; for, after
mentioning the bay of Schoenus and the Regio Bubassus, he mentions Cnidus, and
he says that Doris begins at Cnidus. Again, he says that Halicarnassus is between
the Cerameicus and the Iasius: the Cerameicus of Pliny, then, is either different
from the Sinus Doridis, or it is one of the bays included in the Sinus Doridis,
and so called from the town of Ceramus. But Pliny places in the Doridis Sinus,
Leucopolis, Hamaxitus, Elaeus, and Euthene; and Mela (i. 16) places Euthane, as
he calls it, in a bay between Cnidus and the Cerameicus Sinus: from which it clearly
appears that Euthane is in the Sinus Doridis of Pliny, and that Mela's Cerameicus
is a smaller bay in the Sinus Doridis. Mela's Littus Leuca is between Halicarnassus
and Myndus; and if this is Pliny's Leucopolis, as we may assume, the identity
of the Cerameicus and the Sinus Doridis of Pliny is clearly established.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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