CIMME´RIUM
CIMME´RIUM (
Κιμμέριον,
Ptol. 3.6.4;
Κιμμερὶς, Scymn.
Frag. cxlviii;
Κιμμερικόν,
Strab. xi. p.494; Cimmerium, Pomp. Mela, 1.19.15), a town of the Cimmerian Bosporus which Pliny says was situated “ultimo in ostio,” and was formerly called
CERBERION (6.6). Clarke (
Trav. vol. ii. p. 67) identifies it with
Temruk; Forbiger (vol. iii. p. 1128) with
Eskikrimm. [
E.B.J]