Cisamus
Κίσαμος
Cisamus (Κίσαμος).
1.
The port of Aptera in Crete. [APTERA]
2.
Another town of this name appears in the Peutinger Tables 32 M. P. to the W. of Cydonia (comp. Ptol. 3.17.8; Stadiasm. § 322, 323, Hierocl.; Cisamum, Plin. Nat. 4.12). In and about Kísamo Kastéli are 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. (Pashley, Trav. vol. ii. p. 43.) [E.B.J]
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.