event · evt_kition_phoenician_establishment
Direct Phoenician presence at Kition
Phoenician inscriptions and associated institutional contexts directly attest Phoenician language and community presence by the ninth century BCE.
What is the evidence?
observation
Phoenician inscriptions and associated institutional contexts directly attest Phoenician language and community presence by the ninth century BCE.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
900 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
very highPreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides epigraphic evidence
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
Locator: Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions - informs · 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 direct attestation from earlier connectivity.
Locator: Phoenician presence and settlement restructuring
Interpretation and caveats
Direct epigraphy supports a Phoenician establishment at Kition, but earlier Levantine objects or practices are not automatically Phoenician settlement evidence.
Event context
Classification
Event type: language and community establishment
Evidence layer: textual and archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Kition-Kathari, Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Provides direct language and institutional evidence. Role: provides epigraphic evidence. Locator: Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions.
- Separates direct attestation from earlier connectivity. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Phoenician presence and settlement restructuring.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides epigraphic evidence
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
Locator: Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions - informs · 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 direct attestation from earlier connectivity.
Locator: Phoenician presence and settlement restructuring
Referenced records
- Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition · entity
- Kition-Kathari · entity