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Tarrha in the early 3d c. B.C. had a coinage alliance with neighboring Lisos, Elyros, and Hyrtakina, and may have been a member of the league of Oreioi.
Ursakina: Hursakina, Artakina, Eth. Hurtakos, Hurtakinos. A city of
Crete, which, little as we learn of its position from Ptolemy and Stephanus of
Byzantium, yet we may safely infer from the former's words that it was situated
to the SE. of Polyrrhenia, and to the W. of Lappa. Scylax teaches us more respecting
its site; he places it on the S. of the island, and to the S. of the Dictynnean
temple of Artemis and the Pergamian district. These indications agree well with
the situation of the ruins discovered by Mr. Pashley on a hill near the village
of Temenia.
Numerous vestiges of polygonal masonry on the N. and W. sides, and
measuring little more than half a mile in length, are still existing. On the other
sides the city was precipitous. It is curious to observe the care taken by the
inhabitants in defending the gateways of their city. Not only do walls project
without the gate, but flanking walls are executed within, forming passages through
which the enemy would have to pass before he could set foot within the city.
The coins of Hyrtacina present types similar to those of Elyros, with
the retrograde epigraph ATTHU and URTAKINION.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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