Dattalla or Datala () was a town of ancient Crete. The inhabitants of Dattalla are documented in a decree dated at the end of the sixth century BCE, that deals with the agreement of the city with a scribe for the public affairs of the city.Begoña Ortega Villaro, La distribución de imperativo, futuro e infinitivo-imperativo en las inscripciones dialectales cretenses, p.194, in Cuadernos de filología clásica: Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, ISSN 1131-9070, Nº 8, 1998, pp. 185-208. SEG 27, 631
Its exact location is unknown but it must have been located between Knossos and Lato. The modern Afrati has been suggested as a possible location - although some identify that site with Arcadia - or the hill Agios Georgios Papura near the town of Pinakiano.
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