Muza and Musa and Mousa () was an important emporion on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea in Arabia Felix near the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in modern Yemen.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MUZAHarry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), MusaDictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Arabia Now it is inland from the modern port city of Mokha due to the recession of the coast.
The city was mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea,Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 7, 16, 17, 21, 24, 28 Pliny the Elder's Natural HistoryPliny the Elder, The Natural History, 6.26 and Ptolemy's Geography.
Pliny describe the Musa as the third port of Arabia Felix. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea has a detailed description of its trade.
References
Further reading The Coastal Arabia and the adjacent Sea-Basins in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (Trade, Geography and Navigation), Michael Bukharin, pp. 177-236 Patterns of trade in the Red Sea during the Age of the Periplus Maris Erythraei