# Hierapytna

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Ancient town in Crete

[Corinthian capitals](/source/Corinthian_order) from Hierapytna

Bronze statue from Hierapytna

**Hierapytna** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Ἱεράπυτνα[1][2] or Ἱερὰ Πύτνα[3][4]), also **Hierapydna** (Ἱεράπυδνα),[5] **Hierapydnes** (Ἱερά Πύδνης),[6] or **Hiera**,[7] was a town of [ancient Crete](/source/Ancient_Crete). [Strabo](/source/Strabo) says that it stood in the narrowest part of the island, opposite [Minoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minoa_(Crete)&action=edit&redlink=1).[1] Hierapytna, according to the *[Stadiasmus Maris Magni](/source/Stadiasmus_Maris_Magni)*, was 180 [stadia](/source/Stadion_(unit)) from [Biennus](/source/Biennus), which agrees with the distance of 20 [M.P.](/source/Mille_passus) assigned to it by the [Peutinger Table](/source/Peutinger_Table). It was a town of great antiquity, and its foundation was ascribed to the [Corybantes](/source/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](/source/Priansus).[9] There are both autonomous and [Roman Imperial](/source/Roman_Imperial_currency) coins belonging to Hierapytna; the symbol on the former is generally a palm tree.[10]

Its site is located near modern [Ierapetra](/source/Ierapetra).[11][12]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Strabo_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Strabo_1-1) [Strabo](/source/Strabo). *[Geographica](/source/Geographica)*. Vol. ix. p.440, x. pp. 472, 475. Page numbers refer to those of [Isaac Casaubon](/source/Isaac_Casaubon)'s edition.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Pliny](/source/Pliny_the_Elder). *[Naturalis Historia](/source/Natural_History_(Pliny))*. [Book 4.20](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+4.20).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy). *[The Geography](/source/Geography_(Ptolemy))*. Vol. 3.17.4. , although some manuscripts have Ἱερὰ Πέτρα.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Stephanus_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Stephanus_4-1) [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium). Ethnica. Vol. *s.v*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Dio Cassius](/source/Dio_Cassius) 36.8; [Hierocles](/source/Hierocles_(author_of_Synecdemus)). *[Synecdemus](/source/Synecdemus)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** *[Stadiasmus Maris Magni](/source/Stadiasmus_Maris_Magni)* §§ 319-320.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Peut. Tab.](/source/Peut._Tab.)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Strabo](/source/Strabo). *[Geographica](/source/Geographica)*. Vol. x. p. 472. Page numbers refer to those of [Isaac Casaubon](/source/Isaac_Casaubon)'s edition.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Böckh, *Corp. Inscrip. Graec.* n. 2556; Höck, *Kreta*, vol. iii. p. 472.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [Eckhel](/source/Eckhel), *Doctrina numorum veterum*, vol. ii. p. 313.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Barrington_11-0)** [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert), ed. (2000). [*Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World*](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World). Princeton University Press. p. 60. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-03169-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-03169-9), with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/23386.html).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), ed. (1854–1857). "Hierapytna". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

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