Hierapytna

{{Short description|Ancient town in Crete}} [[File:Corinthian columns ierapetra.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Corinthian order|Corinthian capitals]] from Hierapytna]] [[File:AMI - Bronzestatue.jpg|thumb|300px|Bronze statue from Hierapytna]] '''Hierapytna''' ({{langx|grc|Ἱεράπυτνα}}<ref name=Strabo>{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.440, x. pp. 472, 475}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pliny|4.20}}</ref> or Ἱερὰ Πύτνα<ref>{{Cite Ptolemy|3.17.4}}, although some manuscripts have Ἱερὰ Πέτρα.</ref><ref name=Stephanus>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref>), also '''Hierapydna''' (Ἱεράπυδνα),<ref>[[Dio Cassius]] 36.8; {{cite Hierocles| }}</ref> '''Hierapydnes''' (Ἱερά Πύδνης),<ref>''[[Stadiasmus Maris Magni]]'' §§ 319-320.</ref> or '''Hiera''',<ref>[[Peut. Tab.]]</ref> was a town of [[ancient Crete]]. [[Strabo]] says that it stood in the narrowest part of the island, opposite [[Minoa (Crete)|Minoa]].<ref name=Strabo/> Hierapytna, according to the ''[[Stadiasmus Maris Magni]]'', was 180 [[stadion (unit)|stadia]] from [[Biennus]], which agrees with the distance of 20 [[mille passus|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.<ref>{{Cite Strabo|x. p. 472}}</ref><ref name=Stephanus/> From an inscription preserved among the Oxford marbles, it appears that the Hierapytnians were at one time allied with the neighbouring city of [[Priansus]].<ref>Böckh, ''Corp. Inscrip. Graec.'' n. 2556; Höck, ''Kreta'', vol. iii. p. 472.</ref> There are both autonomous and [[Roman Imperial currency|Roman Imperial]] coins belonging to Hierapytna; the symbol on the former is generally a palm tree.<ref>[[Eckhel]], ''Doctrina numorum veterum'', vol. ii. p. 313.</ref>

Its site is located near modern [[Ierapetra]].<ref name=Barrington>{{Barrington Atlas|page=60}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|23386}}</ref>

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