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Lappa (Crete)

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visited the site and reported considerable remains of a massive brick edifice, with buttresses 15 feet (4.6 m) wide and of 9 feet (2.7 m) projection; a circular building, 60 feet (18 m) diameter, with niches round it 11 feet (3.4 m) wide; a cistern, 76 by 20 feet (23.2 by
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Lappa minted coins with the heads of emperors including its benefactor Augustus. One such coin bears the epigraph ΘΕΩΚΑΙΣΑΝΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΩ. Lappan coins also feature maritime symbols, perhaps reflecting the city's coastal territories.
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6.1 m); a Roman brick building, and several tombs cut in the rock. One of the inscriptions relating to this city mentions a certain Marcus Aurelius Clesippus, in whose honour the Lappaeans erected a statue.
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claims that Lappa was almost entirely destroyed during the Roman conquest of Crete, but was later restored and granted special privileges by
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Gruter, p. 1091; Chishull, Antiq. Asiat. p. 122; Mabillon, Mus. Ital. p. 33; Böckh, Corp. Inscr. Gr. vol. ii. p. 428.
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Lappa became a Christian episcopal see. The name of its bishop is recorded as present at the
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reports that Lappa provided refuge to the population of
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reports a mythic tradition that the city was founded by
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of 451, as well as on many other subsequent occasions.
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Ancient Greek
Crete
Argyroupoli

Aphrodite Rhithymnia
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Ancient Greek
Stephanus of Byzantium
Stephanus of Byzantium
Agamemnon
Tarrhaean
Strabo
Phoenix
Polybius
Lyktos
Knossos
Dio Cassius
Augustus
Marcus Antonius
Council of Ephesus
Council of Chalcedon
Robert Pashley
Richard Talbert
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