Greek sea gods the Enuma Elish, and where the Spirit of God is said to have "hovered over the waters" in Genesis. Pontus is the primordial deity of the sea. Poseidon, as god of the sea, was an important Olympian power; he was the chief patron of Corinth, many cities of Magna Graecia, and also of Plato's legendary Atlantis. He controls the oceans and the seas, and he also created horses. As such, he was intimately connected with the pre-historic office of king - whose chief emblem of power and primary sacrificial animal was the horse. Thus, on the Mycenean Linear B tablets
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea never went this far south. This account of a kingdom tracing its beginnings to Alexander's campaigns and the Hellenistic Seleucid empire that followed: The "Periplus" further claims to the circulation of Indo-Greek coinage in the region: The Greek city of Alexandria Bucephalous on the Jhelum River is mentioned in the "Periplus", as well as in the Roman Peutinger Table: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (, ) is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along