Kition (Ancient Greek: Κίτιον, Kition; Latin: Citium; Egyptian: kꜣṯꜣj; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤕, KT, or 𐤊𐤕𐤉, KTY;) was an Ancient Greek city-kingdom on the...
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The Sargon Stele (German: Kition-Stele) was found in the autumn of 1845 in Cyprus on the site of the former city-kingdom of Kition, in present-day Larnaca...
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BC. Its name does not appear, however, on the renowned "Kition Stele", i.e., the Sargon Stele of 707 BC, but a little later on the Prism of Esarhaddon...
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the only title applied to this king by his successors. The Kition stele, a large basalt stele discovered on Cyprus and the westernmost ancient Assyrian...
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(CIS I 5) KAI 32: Kition Resheph pillars (CIS I 10, 88) KAI 33, 35: Pococke Kition inscriptions (CIS I 11, 46, 57–85) KAI 34: Kition Necropolis Phoenician...
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on 2014-04-20, retrieved 2014-04-20 Radner, Karen. The Stele of Sargon II of Assyria at Kition: A focus for an emerging Cypriot identity?. p. 429....
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Eshmun obelisk is an obelisk with a two-line Phoenician inscription found in Kition, Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham in 1881. It is known as CIS I 44, KI 21...
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Kellia inscription (category Phoenician steles)
the village of Kellia, three quarters of an hour north of Kition, in the middle of a large stele made of white marble walled over one of the inner vaults...
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viewing the Bamboula site. The Kition-Kathari site is located around 500 meters further north. A replica of the stele of king Sargon II stands in the...
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in the 8th century BC. The town of Kition, now Larnaka, recorded part of the ancient history of Cyprus on a stele that commemorated a victory by Sargon...
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reclaimed the island and its colony of Kition. In 701, after another revolt, Sennacherib forced Luli to flee to Kition. Tyre lost control over Sidon and Akko...
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huma-num.fr/source/269 144 in Calvet, Y.; Salles, J.F. (1982). Kition-Bamboula: Kition dans les textes. Testimonia littéraires et épigraphiques et Corpus...
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Pyla-Kokkinokremos, un centro fortificato cipriota nell'entroterra del golfo di Larnaka (Kition), vissuto mezzo secolo fra il 1200 e il 1150 a.C. (Now the identification...
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and Sardinia, which created conflicts of interest with Etruria. A stele found in Kition, Cyprus commemorates the victory of King Sargon II in 709 BC over...
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separation between the Late Cypriot II (LCII) from the LCIII period. The city of Kition is commonly cited as destroyed at the end of the LC IIC, but the excavator...
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The Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions are four Phoenician inscriptions discovered in the necropolis of Tourapi at Kition in 1894 by British archaeologist...
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Kition Resheph pillars are two Phoenician inscriptions discovered in Cyprus at Kition in 1860. They are notable for mentioning three cities - Kition,...
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of fifth-century BC tariff inscriptions found at the Phoenician city of Kition in Cyprus. They also share some terminology and formulae with Ugaritic and...
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Phoenician votive inscriptions (category Phoenician steles)
similar formulas were found in Sidon, near Tyre, in Athens, Rhodes, Egypt, Kition and Idalion, as well as unstandard versions in Carthage. Outside Carthage...
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rich in prehistoric tombs, including a central stele 2.8 m high and 1.5 m wide. The area behind the stele and the exedra is made up of seven orthostatic...
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JSTOR 41303323. S2CID 145597598. Radner, Karen (2010). "The stele of Sargon II of Assyria at Kition: A focus for an emerging Cypriot identity?". In Rollinger...
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metal covered with reliefs. Two vexilloids are depicted on the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin. In Alaca Höyük, archaeologists have discovered Hittite vexilloids...
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Abyla (redirect from Abile Stele)
Greek variously as Abýla (Ἀβύλα), Abýlē (Ἀβύλη), Ablýx (Ἀβλύξ), and Abílē Stḗlē (Ἀβίλη Στήλη, "Pillar of Abyla") and in Latin as Mount Abyla (Abyla Mons)...
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similar to those found in the 12th and 11th century BCE shrines at Enkomi and Kition on Cyprus. In the lower city, along the ridge of the southern slope of the...
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from Temple of Taharqa, Sanam Abu Dom, Napatan Period, 25th Dynasty Jatayu Stele of the Vultures Vulture fund "Fossilworks:Aegypiinae". Fossilworks. Retrieved...
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Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions (category Phoenician steles)
inscriptions). 9 of the inscriptions are bilingual Phoenician-Greek and written on steles. Almost all of them bear the indication of the deceased's city of origin...
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tactic probably allowed him to travel very quickly up the Nile. The second stele of Kamose (found in Thebes) continues Kamose's narrative with an attack...
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Milkyaton, have been found in this city. A bilingual inscription from Kition dated to 341 BCE mentions Resheph under the epithet ḥṣ, whose interpretation...
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Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone discussion below), and, according to...
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