Priapi Portus
Πριάτιδυς λιμήν
Priapi Portus (Πριάτιδυς λιμήν, Ptol. 7.4.3), a port which Ptolemy places on the NW. side of the island of Taprobane (Ceylon). Mannert imagines that it is represented by the present Negombo. The name may not unnaturally have arisen from the Greeks having noticed at this place the prevalence of the Lingam or Phallie worship.
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.