CISAMUS(Κίσαμος).
1. The port of Aptera in Crete. [APTERA]
2. Another town of this name appears in the Peutinger Tables 32 M. P. to the W. of Cydonia (comp. Ptol. 3.17.8; Stadiasm. § 322, 323, Hierocl.; Cisamum, Plin. Nat. 4.12). In and about Kísamo Kastéliare 14 or 15 fragments of shafts of marble and granite columns, an Ionic capital, and remains of walls, indicating that there once existed upon this site a flourishing and important city. (Pashley, Trav. vol. 2. p. 43.) [E.B.J]