Mercutrii Prom
Ερμαία ἄκρα
Mercutrii Prom (Ερμαία ἄκρα, Ptol. 4.3.7; Pomp, Mela, 1.7.2; Plin. v, 3), the most northerly point of the coast of Africa, to the E. of the gulf of Carthage, now Cape Bon, or the Râs Addâr of the natives.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.