Hierapytna

Strabo says that it stood in the narrowest part of the island, opposite Minoa.

[1] Hierapytna, according to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni, was 180 stadia from Biennus, which agrees with the distance of 20 M.P.

It was a town of great antiquity, and its foundation was ascribed to the Corybantes; it bore the successive names of Cyrba, Pytna, Camirus, and Hierapytna.

[8][4] From an inscription preserved among the Oxford marbles, it appears that the Hierapytnians were at one time allied with the neighbouring city of Priansus.

[9] There are both autonomous and Roman Imperial coins belonging to Hierapytna; the symbol on the former is generally a palm tree.