Tylus
Τύλος
Tylus or TYRUS (Τύλος, Ptol. 6.7.47; Τύρος, Strab. xvi. p.766; Steph. B. sub voce an island in the Persian gulf, off the coast of Arabia. It has been already mentioned that according to some traditions, this island was the original seat of the Phoenicians, who named the city of Tyre after it when they had settled on the coasts of the Mediterranean. [PHOENICIA, p. 607.] Pliny describes the island as abounding in pearls. (Plin. Nat. 6.28. s. 32, 12.10. s. 21, 16.41. s. 80; Arrian, Arr. Anab. 7.20; Theophr. Hist. Plant. 4.9, 5.6)
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.