entity · site_kition_kathari
Kition-Kathari
Also known as: Kition Area II, Kathari
At Kition on Cyprus’s southern coast, sacred and public buildings sit within a history of urban investment, workshops and maritime connections. Its evidence invites us to look for changes in organization as well as destruction.
Kition: a place in a connected world
At Kition on Cyprus’s southern coast, sacred and public buildings sit within a history of urban investment, workshops and maritime connections. Its evidence invites us to look for changes in organization as well as destruction.
Workshop assemblages connect metalworking with repair and recycling. The city participated in a distributed economy whose connections and institutions could change while work continued.
What changed?
Rebuilding with continuing production
What continued?
Metalworking, exchange and rebuilt sacred/public architecture continued. Later records follow the town into Cypro-Geometric phases and Phoenician connections.
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.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Metalworking and Recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Kition — Vassos Karageorghis, Vasiliki Kassianidou (1999)Documents urban metallurgy.
Locator: Metalworking and recycling contexts - informs · contextualizes
Cyprus During the Iron Age I Period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of Its Settlement Pattern — Maria Iacovou (2014)Supports urban continuity and restructuring.
Locator: Kition LC IIIA and IIIB trajectory - informs · documents early iron history
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Dates direct Phoenician historical visibility.
Locator: Ninth-century and later Phoenician evidence
Research description
Kition-Kathari became prominent in the later thirteenth and twelfth centuries BCE and retained urban and cultic functions into the Early Iron Age. Phoenician language and institutions are directly visible later, principally from the ninth century BCE, not automatically from all earlier Levantine material.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Copper-production node
Direct evidence for one or more stages of copper production.
Why does this record have this property?
Workshops and debris document metalworking and recycling.
- Metalworking and Recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Kition
supports assignment · Metalworking contexts
Continuity across the thirteenth–eleventh-century transition
Evidence that a settlement, institution, or landscape persisted, rebuilt, or relocated through part of the transition.
Why does this record have this property?
Urban and sacred areas were rebuilt and continued into the Early Iron Age.
Sanctuary or cult context
Architecture and assemblages interpreted as sustained ritual or cult activity.
Why does this record have this property?
Monumental sacred precincts and rebuilding are securely documented.
- Cyprus During the Iron Age I Period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of Its Settlement Pattern
supports assignment · Kition public and sacred buildings
Direct language attestation
Inscription whose language attribution is supported independently of associated object style.
Why does this record have this property?
Phoenician inscriptions directly attest language by the ninth century BCE.
- Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C.
supports assignment · Epigraphic evidence
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Metalworking and Recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Kition — Vassos Karageorghis, Vasiliki Kassianidou (1999)Documents urban metallurgy.
Locator: Metalworking and recycling contexts - informs · contextualizes
Cyprus During the Iron Age I Period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of Its Settlement Pattern — Maria Iacovou (2014)Supports urban continuity and restructuring.
Locator: Kition LC IIIA and IIIB trajectory - informs · documents early iron history
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Dates direct Phoenician historical visibility.
Locator: Ninth-century and later Phoenician evidence
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_kition_kathari · geography assertion
- Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape · entity