# Peyras 1988: Le lac Tritonis et les noms anciens du chott el Jérid

> Jean Peyras, Pol Trousset, 1988. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for how the ancient authors disagreed on where Lake Tritonis lay, and…

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# Le lac Tritonis et les noms anciens du chott el Jérid

Jean Peyras, Pol Trousset, 1988. _Antiquités africaines_ 24: 149-204.

Shows that ancient writers disagreed on where Lake Tritonis was: the Herodotean tradition points to the Gulf of Gabès, Pseudo-Scylax to the Lesser Syrtis, Pliny to between the Syrtes, Strabo to Cyrenaica; only Mela, and perhaps Ptolemy, put it inland, which fits the great chotts, already cut off from the sea in antiquity. Gives Madd lacus as a Roman name of the Chott el Djerid.

**Eye of the Sahara and AtlantisSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.3406/antaf.1988.1150](https://doi.org/10.3406/antaf.1988.1150)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for how the ancient authors disagreed on where Lake Tritonis lay, and for the ancient names of the Chott el Djerid.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[The ancients disagreed where Lake Tritonis was, and most put it in Tunisia or Libya, far from Mauritania](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPB9NDCM8T/the-ancients-disagreed-where-lake-tritonis-was-and-most-put)

Evidence

EVD

[The Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara)

The mystery article

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[Gulf of Gabès](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/places/PLC0DCP7XVSJNDA/gulf-of-gabes)

PLC

[Lake Tritonis (Chott el Djerid)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/places/PLC0DCP7XJGDEER/lake-tritonis-chott-el-djerid)

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## Cite it

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Peyras, J., & Trousset, P. (1988). Le lac Tritonis et les noms anciens du chott el Jérid. Antiquités africaines, 24, 149-204. https://doi.org/10.3406/antaf.1988.1150
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[Read it free at persee.fr](https://www.persee.fr/doc/antaf_0066-4871_1988_num_24_1_1150)

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