Aegypti Re Centior De Scriptio & Carthaginis Celeberrimi inus Typus. [Egypt]

Ortelius’s modern map of Egypt and Tunis on the one sheet. The map of Egypt shows the Nile Delta extending from Alexandria the great city of learning, to the Sinai Peninsula and south along the Red Sea. Cairo is marked and so are the Pyramids. This is Ortelius’s modern map of Egypt. The lower map shows the area surrounding Tunis which was the location of the ancient city of Carthage. The city of Carthage was located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the centre of Tunis. According to Roman legend it was founded in 814 BCE by Phoenician colonists. 

1584L98 (last line, left aligned: Ioannem Leonem etiam loca huic vicina, lustrare licebit.), 

References: Van den Broecke, map # 174. Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici, III (Ortelius).