The Inscriptions of KourionT.B. Mitford presents a comprehensive study of all known inscriptions from the ancient city of Kourion on the island of Cyprus. These date from the 7th, perhaps the 8th cent. B.C., through the Classical, Hellenistic, and Imperial Roman periods, to the early Byzantine era. The finds are fully illustrated by photos and line drawings. Tables of syllabic signs include the signaries of Archaic Kourion, the Treasure of Kourion, Classical Kourion, Archaic and Classical Paphos, and the Common Cypriot Signary of the Classical Period. A full bibliography, a concordance of the inscriptions, and plans of archaeological sites are provided, the whole forming a richly annotated and illustrated corpus of Kourion and its environs. |
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Acropolis of Kourion alpha apices Apollo Caesar Arch Archaic Audollent broken Bull Caracalla century B.C. Cesnola Curium Cypriot Cyprus dedication defixiones epigraphy Episkopi epsilon excavated Forms fragments funerary hastae height Hellenistic honorand Imperial incisions inscribed inscription Inst iota Julia Domna Kallikrates Kition Kouklia lambda letters Masson Old Paphos omicron Opusc Paphian pedestal pithos plaque proconsul provenience Ptolemaic rectangular Roman Sakellarios Sanctuary of Apollo Second century A.D. seemingly Septimius Severus serifs Severan siege-mound sigma signary signs slab stele stone strategos stroke Stud suggest Suppl T. B. Mitford temenos Theater thickness Third century A.D. Trajan University Museum University of Pennsylvania Unpublished upper upright white marble width δέμονες εἰς ἐμὲ ἐν ἐπὶ θυμὸν καὶ κατὰ κὲ κὲ τὴν κὶ οἱ Ορκίσζω παραλάβετε τὰ τὰς τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὑμᾶς ὑμῖν
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Page xiii - L. Jalabert and R. Mouterde, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, II, nos. 348-349. P. 173, § 2. See E. Fre'zouls, " Recherches sur la ville de Cyrrhus," Annales archeologiques de Syrie, IV-V (1954-55), pp.
Page 387 - ... personage, though it has, naturally enough, been pronounced a contemporary likeness of Zeno himself. A legend in Cypriote cuneiform surrounds it, which has not hitherto been interpreted, but certainly follows the rule with Phoenician legends in such connection, and expresses the name of the man who seals. This gem was picked up many years back, and the finder, struck with the beauty of the sard, caused his own name to be cut in Arabic on the reverse, and set it, with the original intaglio downwards,...
Page xiii - ... addition to the familiar abbreviations for archaeological publications of general •character, the following are employed for works dealing with Cypriote sculpture : — CC = LP di Cesnola, Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities, vol.
Page 373 - Assyrian demon in combat with a lion; (ii) a narrow inner zone showing a group of six cattle — cow suckling calf, two grazing oxen, two confronted oxen — a hunting scene with two hunters attempting to rescue a comrade from the grip of a lion, a grazing horse and a lion killing a man...
Page 381 - Idalion (Repertoire d"epigraphie semitique, no. 453) dated to the third year of Baalmelek (II), King of Kition and Idalion, son of Azbaal, King of Kition and Idalion, son of Baalmelek (I), King of Kition.
Page 240 - Cesnola reports, with the inscribed upper wall and rim rising above pavement level, a normal setting for a pithos, so that it might serve as a container or storage vessel within the naos of the Temple.
Page 246 - The natives in digging for a well came upon them at the bottom of a disused shaft, lying under a quantity of human bones. They were found rolled up with the writing inside — not unlike worn fragments of gas-piping.
Page 10 - Paphian coinage suggests that her Greek dynasty may subsequently have been supplanted by an Eteo-Cyprian line which seemingly maintained itself in the later fifth century BC;" and as a compensation for the loss of political power came a steady consolidation of the theocratic regime.
Page 375 - Cypro-Phoenician" class and accordingly dated by him to the seventh century, was probably the handiwork of a Phoenician craftsman working not on the mainland but in Cyprus.
Page 249 - Aegypt. 7, 4, where it is said that enchanters used barbarous words which the Egyptians themselves did not understand, because these words had a singular influence over gods and demons.