entity · text_early_phoenician_kition_corpus
Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition
Also known as: Kition Phoenician epigraphic corpus
Ninth-century and later Phoenician inscriptions that directly attest Phoenician language and institutions at Kition.
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: approximate
- informs · documents epigraphy
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Provides site-specific synthesis.
Locator: Kition inscriptions and historical phases - 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)Places language evidence in settlement continuity.
Locator: Early Iron Kition trajectory
Research description
The corpus provides direct linguistic evidence later than the earliest Levantine-associated objects at the site. Earlier trade, ceramics, or architecture must not be relabeled Phoenician settlement without independent evidence.
Evidence and sources
- informs · documents epigraphy
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Provides site-specific synthesis.
Locator: Kition inscriptions and historical phases - 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)Places language evidence in settlement continuity.
Locator: Early Iron Kition trajectory
Referenced records
- Kition-Kathari · entity