Cisamus or Kisamos (Ancient Greek: Κίσαμος) was town of ancient Crete. It appears as one of two towns of the name in the Peutinger Table 32 M.P. to the west of Cydonia.[1] The name appears as Cisamum in Pliny the Elder.[2] Its site is located near Kastelli-Kissamou,[3][4] where travelers in the 19th century observed 14 or 15 fragments of shafts of marble and granite columns, an Ionic capital, and remains of walls, indicating that there once existed upon this site a flourishing and important city.[5]
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comp. Stadiasm. § 322, 323; Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.17.8.
Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.12.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
Robert Pashley, Travels in Crete (J. Murray 1837), vol. 1, pp. 49, 55
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cisamus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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