claim · claim_phoenician_direct_ninth_century_kition
Secure direct evidence for Phoenician language and institutional presence at Kition belongs to the ninth century BCE, even though Levantine contacts are much earlier.
Secure direct evidence for Phoenician language and institutional presence at Kition belongs to the ninth century BCE, even though Levantine contacts are much earlier.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Provides the inscriptions and sequence.
Locator: Early Phoenician Kition - supports · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Separates the chronological thresholds.
Locator: Phoenician presence in Early Iron Age Cyprus
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