He and the unit were later transferred to Syrian Antioch, where bishop Peter of Attalia baptised him and where he was martyred in 308.[23] It has also been speculated that this Byzantine depiction of St. Christopher as dog-headed may have resulted from a misreading of the Latin term Cananeus (Canaanite) as caninus, that is, "canine".[24] Roman writer Pliny the Elder also reported that the “Cynamolgi (or Cynocephali), of ‘Ethiopia’ were men with the heads of dogs.” Pliny’s work was a well respected compendium of Roman science - The Natural Historica- during the first century A.D. In it, there is reported accepted “knowledge” about people from the area of Western Egypt (Cyrenaica).