Priansus
Priansus or Priansos, also Pransus or Pransos, was a town and polis in ancient Crete. It is mentioned in a list of Cretan cities cited in a decree of Cnossus of about 259-233 BCE, as well as in the list of Cretan cities that signed an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon in 183 BCE. An honorary decree of Priansus dated to 170-140 BCE that includes the dispatch of two ambassadors of Teos in which one of them is specially praised for singing poems from the mythic Cretan cycle. Priansus minted coins dated from approximately 330-270 BCE bearing the inscription «ΠΡΙΑΝΣΙΕΩΝ» or «ΠΡΙ».
The site of Priansus is located near modern Kastellos.
