Sapirine
Σαππειρήνη ἢ Σασπειρήνη νῆσος
Sapirine (Plin. Nat. 6.29. s. 33.; Σαππειρήνη ἢ Σασπειρήνη νῆσος, Ptol. 4.5.77; Σαπφειρηνή, Steph. B. sub voce an island in the Arabian gulf, NE. of Myos Hormos and S. of the promontory Pharan, from which sapphires were obtained according to. Stephanus. Now Sheduan.
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.