APATU´RUM or APATU´RUS(Ἀπάτουρον, Strab.; Ἀπάτουρος, Steph. B., Ptol.), a town of the Sindae, on the Pontus Euxinus, near the Bosporus Cimmerius, which was almost uninhabited in Pliny's time. It possessed a celebrated temple of Aphrodite Apaturus (the Deceiver); and there was also a temple to this goddess in the neighbouring town of Phanagoria. (Strab. 11. p. 495; Plin. Nat. 6.6; Ptol. 5.9.5; Steph. B. s. v.)