Book 6 of Ptolemy's "Geography" (2nd cent. AD) deals with Assyria,
Media, Susiana, Persis, Parthia, the Carmanian Desert, Arabia Felix,
Carmania, Hyrcania, Margiana, Bactriana, Sogdiana, Sakaland, Skythia,
Serica, Areia, Paropanisadai, Drangiana, Archaosia, and Gedrosia. In the
present part of ther work the authors offer the first complete critical
edition of this important text. A second part will deal with the
respective maps, and a third part will be formed by a commentary with
philological, historical, and linguitic analysis of the single
geographical ent ethnographical names.