Hieratis
Ἱέρατις
Hieratis (Ἱέρατις, Arrian Ind. chap. 39), a town belonging to the province of Persis, on an island formed by a channel from a river in the neighbourhood. The whole country in its immediate neighbourhood appears to have been a peninsula, and to have borne the name in ancient times of Mesambria. It is not easy to fix its exact position; but it could not have been far from the modern Abushir. (Vincent, Voy. of Nearchus, vol. i. p. 390.)
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.