Artanissa
Ἀ̔ρτάνισσα
Artanissa (Ἀ̔ρτάνισσα Telawe?), a city of Iberia, in Asia, between the Cyrus and M. Caucasus (Ptol. 5.1 § 3). It was one of Ptolemy's points of recorded astronomical observations, having the longest day 15 hrs. 25 min., and being one hour E. of Alexandria (8.19.5).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.