Note 13 — PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Isis is supposed to be the same as Io, and the island of Tiran is evidently, as I have already stated in a preceding note, that which Procopius names Ἰωταβη, Iotabe. This word is probably derived from Ἰοὺς τὰ ἄβατα,—the shrine, or sacred place, of Io.