Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- Preface
- 36a The Greeks in the Near East
- 36b The Greeks in Egypt
- 36c Cyprus
- 36d The Cypriot syllabary
- 37 The colonial expansion of Greece
- 38 The western Greeks
- 39a The eastern Greeks
- 39b Crete
- 39c Cretan Laws and Society
- 39d Euboea and the Islands
- 40 Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia
- 41 Central Greece and Thessaly
- 42 The Peloponnese
- 43 The growth of the Athenian state
- 44 The Tyranny of Pisistratus
- 45a Economic and social conditions in the Greek world
- 45b The material culture of Archaic Greece
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- References
36c - Cyprus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- Preface
- 36a The Greeks in the Near East
- 36b The Greeks in Egypt
- 36c Cyprus
- 36d The Cypriot syllabary
- 37 The colonial expansion of Greece
- 38 The western Greeks
- 39a The eastern Greeks
- 39b Crete
- 39c Cretan Laws and Society
- 39d Euboea and the Islands
- 40 Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia
- 41 Central Greece and Thessaly
- 42 The Peloponnese
- 43 The growth of the Athenian state
- 44 The Tyranny of Pisistratus
- 45a Economic and social conditions in the Greek world
- 45b The material culture of Archaic Greece
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- References
Summary
Assyrian domination and a century of independence
The middle of the eighth century B.C. marks the initial stage of the Cypro-Archaic I period. This was previously put at the very end of the century, about 700 B.C.., but recent research, based especially on the Greek ceramic material found in Cyprus, has rightly raised the date. Part of this period has been discussed already in CAH III.1, ch. 12, down to the year 709, when Sargon II conquered Cyprus, this event appearing as an appropriate landmark for the end of that chapter.
In this chapter we shall cover a period of about two centuries and the basic evidence will again be archaeological; but for the latest part of the period, from the Egyptian domination onwards (about 560 B.C.), we have information from Herodotus, mainly with regard to the period of Persian rule in Cyprus. We also possess some Assyrian records which throw light on the names of the various kingdoms of Cyprus. In Volume III.1, 533, reference was made to the inscription on the stele of Sargon II, where the names of the seven kings of Yadnana (Cyprus) who accepted his sovereignty are mentioned. The conquest of Cyprus by Sargon (724–705 B.C.) is mentioned also in his ‘Display inscription’ at Khorsabad, which reads as follows: ‘I cut down all my foes from Yadnana which is in the sea of the setting sun.’
Assyrian rule continued firm, and some thirty years after the occupation of Cyprus by Sargon Assyrian domination is mentioned again in the prism-inscription of Esarhaddon, which was written in 673/2 B.C. to commemorate the rebuilding of the Royal Palace of Nineveh.
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- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 57 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982
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