Priansus or Priansos (), also Pransus or Pransos (àÃÂìýÃÂÿÃÂ), was a town and polis (city-state) in ancient Crete.
It is mentioned in a list of Cretan cities cited in a decree of Knossos of about 259âÂÂ233 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 170âÂÂ140 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 330âÂÂ270 BCE bearing the inscription ëàáÃÂÃÂÃÂãÃÂÃÂéÃÂû or ëàáÃÂû. Priansos made several treatises with other Cretan poleis, including a treaty of isopoliteia with the polis of Hierapytna (IC III,iii,4).
The site of Priansus is located near modern Kastellos.