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Amathous and its surroundings testify to the use of the common Cypriot syllabary for the production of some 50 syllabic inscriptions. Although the number presents no match for Paphos (with over 500 inscriptions) and Marion (with over 300 inscriptions), or even Egypt with its rock-carved ‘signatures’ (over 140 inscriptions), it puts Amathous together with Kourion and Salamis in terms of the quantity of known syllabic inscriptions, barely behind Kafizin and Golgoi (with 70 inscriptions each). What is impressive in the case of Amathous however is not so much the quantity of syllabic inscriptions, as the variety of its syllabic epigraphic material, with numerous incised and painted vase inscriptions, carved stone inscriptions (tomb stones and dedications), a stone seal as well as coinage. Some of its biggest stone inscriptions remain enigmatic in their content, due to the fact that they are suggested to have recorded a language other than Greek, the conventionally called ‘Eteocypriot’, the presumed native tongue of the inhabitants; among the stone inscriptions, a now lost bilingual and biscript stone inscription stands out. The main bulk of the syllabic epigraphic material dates to the Classical and Hellenistic periods and a few inscriptions date back to the Archaic period. All the known and surviving syllabic inscriptions from Amathous have been documented in the course of study for a corpus of Cypriot syllabic inscriptions of the 1st mill. BC and are included in the forthcoming first volume of the corpus. The presentation will focus on old and new syllabic material from Amathous, so as to address some of the main issues within Amathousian epigraphy pertaining to its palaeography, dating and history.

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Four Unpublished Inscriptions in Cypriot Syllabic Script in the British Museum

Kadmos, 2011

These study periods were fi nanced by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory of Philadelphia. The Corpus will be published in volume XV of Inscriptiones Graecae in collaboration with M. Egetmeyer and A. Karnava. I thank J.-P. Olivier and M. Egetmeyer for reading my text and making suggestions and corrections; the remaining errors are, of course, mine (MP).

From Paul Schröder’s archives on Cyprus, IV. The inscriptions from the Lang and Cesnola collections

Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 2020

During his trips to Cyprus in 1870 and 1873, the German orientalist and diplomat Paul Schröder, was able to study the Lang and Cesnola epigraphic collections. His correspondence with Justus Olshausen (an orientalist himself, but also a councillor of the Prussian Ministry of Education) contains precious information on some newly discovered important Phoenician and syllabic inscriptions. These derive mostly from Lang’s excava-tions and acquisitions at Idalion and Drymou, but also from Cesnola’s activities at Kition-Batsalos and Golgoi. This paper constitutes the fourth chapter on Schröder’s archives, following the first three published by S. G. Schmid in volume 49 (2019) of the Cahiers.

The most Ancient Cypriot text Written in Greek: The Opheltas’ Spit

Kadmos, 2012

yves duhoux 8 this man name is apparently known several centuries before in the linear B archives of Knossos: o-pe-ta, Ophelt!s (nominative; KN B 799.6; end of late minoan IIIb1, i.e. last decennia before ca 1275/1250). 9 egetmeyer 2010, 396-397. the arcadian dialect has the same-!u genitive and this is one of the linguistic characteristics that prove that both dialects were very closely related. 10 as observed by masson (O.) 1983, 414. Several examples of vI th c. dedications found in rantidi-paphos exhibit the dedicant's name in the genitive-e.g. pe-i-tako-ra-u, Peithagor!u, 'of peithagoras' (mitford-masson 1983, 29, 42-55, text 29). 11 vanschoonwinkel 1991, 425-458, 512. 12 palaepaphos-Skales, 60-73 and plates l-lxIv. 13 the three spits are shown in palaepaphos-Skales, pl. lxIII.

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