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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Island off the coast of LIBYA (north Africa) east of CYRENE (BA 38 D1, Laia/Aphrodites Nesos). Herodotus names Aphrodisias Island as the western boundary of the region inhabited by the GILIGAMAE, and in which silphium grows (4.169.1; Ps.‐Scylax 108.2). The island was apparently also known as Laia in antiquity (Ptol. Geog. 4.4.15). Today it is called Jazirat Kirissah (or Geziret Chersa), less than two miles off the Libyan coast between Derna and Kirissah (32°50'17.9"N 22°29'55.8"E).

SEE ALSO: Geography; Islands