Hierapytna
Hierapytna (Template:Langx[1][2] or Ἱερὰ Πύτνα[3][4]), also Hierapydna (Ἱεράπυδνα),[5] Hierapydnes (Ἱερά Πύδνης),[6] or Hiera,[7] was a town of ancient Crete. Strabo says that it stood in the narrowest part of the island, opposite Minoa.[1] Hierapytna, according to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni, was 180 stadia from Biennus, which agrees with the distance of 20 M.P. assigned to it by the Peutinger Table. It was a town of great antiquity, and its foundation was ascribed to the Corybantes; it bore the successive names of Cyrba, Pytna, Camirus, and Hierapytna.[8][4] From an inscription preserved among the Oxford marbles, it appears that the Hierapytnians were at one time allied with the neighbouring city of Priansus.[9] There are both autonomous and Roman Imperial coins belonging to Hierapytna; the symbol on the former is generally a palm tree.[10]
Its site is located near modern Ierapetra.[11][12]
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- ^ a b Template:Cite Strabo
- ^ Template:Cite Pliny
- ^ Template:Cite Ptolemy, although some manuscripts have Ἱερὰ Πέτρα.
- ^ a b Template:Cite Stephanus
- ^ Dio Cassius 36.8; Template:Cite Hierocles
- ^ Stadiasmus Maris Magni §§ 319-320.
- ^ Peut. Tab.
- ^ Template:Cite Strabo
- ^ Böckh, Corp. Inscrip. Graec. n. 2556; Höck, Kreta, vol. iii. p. 472.
- ^ Eckhel, Doctrina numorum veterum, vol. ii. p. 313.
- ^ Template:Barrington Atlas
- ^ Template:Cite DARE
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