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 Cnossus 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
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.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
