MATA´LIA
MATA´LIA (
Μταλία,
Ptol. 3.17.4), a town in Crete near the headland of
MATALA (
Μάταλα, Stadiasm.), and probably the same place as the naval arsenal of Gortyna,
METALLUM (
Μέταλλον, Strab. x. p.479), as it appears in our copies of Strabo, but incorrectly. (Comp. Groskurd,
ad loc.) The modern name in Mr. Pashley's map is
Mátala. (Höck,
Kreta, vol. i. pp. 399, 435
Mus. Class. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 287.)
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