Cisamus (Aptera)

Cisamus or Kisamos (Ancient Greek: Κίσαμος) was town of ancient Crete and was the port of Aptera.[1] It appears as one of two towns of the name in the Peutinger Table.[2]

Its site is tentatively located at Kalami.[3][4]

  1. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. x. p. 479. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ comp. Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 640.
  3. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.