If we consider that Ptolemy calls the capital of Oman, Muscat, "Moskha Portus", then the common denominator will be the Zan toponym "Moskhat" with the root "moskh-". As is the case with almost every toponym described herein, the official etymology of the name is unclear.
Meanwhile the "country of Moskhi" refers us to the mysterious Moskha (Mushki), who inhabited Eastern Anatolia in ancient times, and today are identified with the Meskhetians. The name of the ancient capital of Georgia, "Mtskheta", may also be related to this root. In a distant, but scientifically legitimate approximation, we can write the equation "Muskhat = Meskheti".The same root, the same suffix. As for the Kartvelians in Oman, where no one seemed to have looked for them (although "Oman" itself has a Kartvelian interpretation), Herodotus sends the Phoenicians to the Middle East from the "Red Sea", which, according to commentators of the Soviet edition of Herodotus' "History", does not mean the Red Sea at all, but the Persian Gulf, on which Oman is located.
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