River
Fluvius Aunes
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Where Fluvius Aunes really ran is still disputed, although the map sets it firmly among the rivers of India. The Greek geographer Artemidorus, quoted by Strabo, called the Aunes a tributary of the Ganges. One reading places it on India's east coast as the Krishna. Another sees in the name a variant of the Cainas, the modern Kabul river, which feeds the Indus. The muddle may be ancient: this knowledge goes back to Alexander's campaign, and the historians of Alexander folded the tributaries of the Indus into the Ganges system. A list of places compiled in Ravenna names the river too.