Omphalium
Ὀμφάλιον
Omphalium (Ὀμφάλιον), a plain in Crete, so named from the legend of the birth of the babe Zeus from Rhea. The scene of the incident is laid near Thenae, Cnossus, and the river Triton. (Callim. Hymn. ad Jov. 45; Diod. 5.70; Schol. ad Nicand. Alexipharm. 7; Steph. B. sub voce Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 11; 404; Pashley, Trav. vol. i. p. 224.)
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.