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42: 50: 115:. In 69–67 BC the latter city was destroyed by the Romans and Cisamus became the main port of Polyrrhenia. In the first century AD Polyrrhenia lost importance and it seems that many people from there moved to Cisamus. The town was enlarged on a street plan with grid patter. Its legal status is disputed. But on the Peutinger Table it is one of only four major cities mentioned on Crete. 361: 119:
cemeteries, several bath houses and many urban villas several of them well equipped with mosaics. There are remains of a temple and of a christian church. Several high quality statues were found in the town, many of them come from the area of the theatre, others from the bath houses but also from private houses. The town was heavily destroyed in the
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There are only a few remains dating to the classical period (4th century BC) at Cisamus. The excavations show that the town was heavily expanded at the beginning of the Roman rule. Rescue excavations of the last decades brought to light substantial remains of the town. These remains include parts of
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The AD 365 Crete earthquake and possible seismic clustering during the fourth to sixth centuries AD in the Eastern Mediterranean: a review of historical and archaeological data,
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The city had a theatre and an amphitheatre. The remains were still visible in the 16th century but were already gone in the 19th century.
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Attitudes towards the Past in Antiquity. Creating Identities Proceedings of an International Conference held at Stockholm University
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A Tale of Two Cretan Cities: the Building of Roman Kissamos and the Persistence of Polyrrhenia in The Wake of Shifting Identities
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A description of some important theatres and other remains in Crete: from a ms. history of Candia by Onorio Belli in 1586
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capital, and remains of walls, indicating that there once existed upon this site a flourishing and important city.
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There is evidence due to an inscription for a Jewish community in the town.
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The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire
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The Mosaics of Roman Crete, Art, Archaeology and Social Change
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Index

Kisamos
Kissamos
Cisamus (Aptera)


Ancient Greek
ancient Crete
Peutinger Table
M.P.
Cydonia
Pliny the Elder
Kastelli-Kissamou
Ionic
Polyrrhenia
Phalasarna
earthquake of 365
Ptolemy
The Geography
Pliny
Naturalis Historia
Lund University
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Richard Talbert
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9
Robert Pashley, Travels in Crete (J. Murray 1837), vol. 1, pp. 49, 55)
online
online
Edward Falkener

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