This article is the second part of a series devoted to ethnographic records in the Geography (after «GeogrAnt», XXVI, 2017, pp. 47-60), and aims to determine their content and status. Based on an examination of the theoretical prolegomena (I, 1– II, 1), it analyses Ptolemy’s ethnographic information in Books IV and VI-VII dealing with the Indian Ocean, an area for which the author depended on the reports of navigators and merchants. It clarifies the signalling function of such records (which Ptolemy refers to as παρασημασία) and proposes to recognise them as indications of origin, intended to highlight information that was to be checked and, if necessary, corrected before being incorporated into the map.
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