Torthyneum or Torthyneon (), or Torthyneium or Torthyneion (Τορθύνειον), was a town of ancient Arcadia. It is contained in ancient epigraphic mentions: the appointment of a theorodokos of Torthyneum is mentioned in an inscription at Delphi, dated to the end of the 5th century or the beginning of the 4th century BCE;Revue des Études Grecques 62 (1949) pp. 6, 8. an inscription at Orchomenus that could be dated around the years 369-361 BCE;Gerhard Thür and Hans Taeuber (1994), Prozessrechtliche Inschriften der griechischen Poleis: Arkadien (IP Ark) 14.5-7. and in an inscription of Aetolia of around the years 262-236 BCE which names a resident of Tortineo as proxenos.IG IX, 1² 1:17
Its site is located with ruins found north of Kamenitsa, northeast of Lasta.
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