Jotape
Ἰωτάπη
Jotape (Ἰωτάπη: Eth. Ἰωταπείτης), a small town of Cilicia, in the district called Selenitis, not far from Selinus. It is perhaps the same place as Laerte, the native city of Diogenes Laertius. It is identified with the modern fort Lambardo. (Ptol. 5.8.2; Plin. Nat. 5.22; Concil. Chalced. p. 659; Hierocl. p. 709, where it is called Ἰοτάπη; comp. LAERTIC.) The coins of lotape belong to the emperors Philip and Valerian.
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.