Eltynia
Eltynia (Greek: Ἐλτυνία) was a town of ancient Crete.[1] The city is documented through inscriptions, whose earliest testimonies date from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, among which is a law dealing with offenses committed against young people.[2] It is also mentioned in a list of the Cretan cities cited in a decree of Knossos c. 259-233 BCE,[3] as well as in the list of Cretan cities that signed an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon in the year 183 BCE.[4]
Its site is located near modern Kounavoi, Ellinika.[5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Crete". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1166. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Ángel Martínez-Fernández, Sobre el empleo de algunas preposiciones en el dialecto cretense. V,p.99. (in Spanish)
- ^ SEG 29, 1135
- ^ IC IV,179.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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