Zephyrium
Ζεφύριον ἄκρον
Zephyrium (Ζεφύριον ἄκρον, Ptol. 3.17.5).
1.
A promontory on the E. part of the N. coast of Crete, near the town of Apollonia. Now Ponta di Tigani.
2.
A promontory on the W. coast of Cyprus, near Paphos, probably the cape which closes the bay of Baffo to the W. (Ptol. 5.14.1; Strab. xiv. p.683.)
3.
A promontory in the E. part of Cyrenaica, 150 stadia to the W. of Darnis. (Strab. xvii. p.799, who attributes it to Marmarica; Ptol. 4.4.5; Stadias. M. Magni, § § 47, 48.) Now Cape Derne.
4.
Another promontory of Cyrenaica, with a harhour. (Strab. xvii. p.838.)
5.
A promontory near Little Taposiris in Lower Aegypt, having a temple of Arsinoë--Aphrodite. (Strab. xvii. p.800.) Hence that goddess derived the epithet of Zephuritis (Ζεφυρῖτις, Athen. 7.318, D.; Callim. Ep. 31; Steph. B. sub voce.
6.
A town of the Chersonesus Taurica, mentioned only by Pliny (4.12. s. 26). [T.H.D]
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.