The Other Phoenicians of Cyprus. A Survey of Phoenician Presence in Cyprus outside Its Main Attestation Sites (Kition, Idalion, Tamassos, Lapithos)

Abstract

When speaking of Phoenician presence in Cyprus, some major sites (Kition, Idalion, Tamassos, Lapithos) can be immediately evoked for having produced a consistent and important epigraphic documentation. The evidence concerning Phoenicians in Cyprus outside these main centres is less known, also because it has never been properly collected. More than fifty years after the important essay by Olivier Masson and Maurice Sznycer, Recherches sur les Phéniciens à Chypre, where several scattered Phoenician inscriptions from different Cypriot sites were published and discussed, we propose a survey of Phoenician epigraphical evidence in Cyprus highlighting this “secondary”, less exploited documentation.