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Ptolemy I conquered Cyprus in 312 BC and killed Poumyathon, the Phoenician king of Kition, and burned the temples. [18] Shortly afterwards the Cypriot city-kingdoms were dissolved and the Phoenician dynasty of Kition was abolished. Following these events the area lost its religious character. [19]
The Kition Tariffs are two important Phoenician inscriptions found in Kition , Cyprus in 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The longer of the two has been described as "Among the longest and most important Phoenician inscriptions from Cyprus".
Zeno of Citium (/ ˈ z iː n oʊ /; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. [3] He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.
The Kition Resheph pillars are two Phoenician inscriptions discovered in Cyprus at Kition in 1860. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are notable for mentioning three cities - Kition , Idalion and Tamassos . They currently reside in the Louvre : AO 7090 [ 3 ] (CIS I 10) and AO 4826 (CIS I 88).
Cyprus has scrapped a 1.2 billion euro ($1.30 billion) concession agreement for the development of Larnaca port, in a legal wrangle that the state and the contractor traded blame for on Monday.
The Sargon Stele [1] (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 to the west of the old harbour of Kition on the archaeological site of Bamboula. [2] The language on the stele is Assyrian Akkadian. The stele was placed there during the time Sargon II (r.
The city was founded on the copper trade in the 3rd millennium 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 (copies of the text dated to 673-672 BC) known as Niniveh A (Nin.
The Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions are four Phoenician inscriptions discovered in the necropolis of Tourapi at Kition in 1894 by British archaeologist John Myres on behalf of the Cyprus Exploration Fund. They currently reside in the British Museum, the Cyprus Museum and the Ashmolean Museum. [1] [2] [3] They are dated to the 4th ...