Bronze Age World

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Type: peer-reviewed journal article
Publication: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, vol. 308, 9–17
Peer reviewed: Yes

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relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Early Iron Age Kition sequence
Connects the Late Cypriot and later urban phases.
entity Kition-Bamboula
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Kition urban and maritime evidence
Provides long-term historical context.
date assertion Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Kition urban and maritime role
Supports the long-term Kition node.
entity Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Kition urban and maritime role
Supports the long-term Kition node.
relationship Monumental rebuilding at Kition in Late Cypriot IIIA — occurred at or affected — Kition-Kathari
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Early Iron Age Kition sequence
Connects the Late Cypriot and later urban phases.
relationship Kition-Bamboula — located within research landscape — Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Kition urban and maritime evidence
Provides long-term historical context.
date assertion Kition-Bamboula — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Kition urban and maritime evidence
Provides long-term historical context.
relationship Monumental rebuilding at Kition in Late Cypriot IIIA — occurred at or affected — Kition-Bamboula
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Early Iron Age Kition sequence
Connects the Late Cypriot and later urban phases.
event Monumental rebuilding at Kition in Late Cypriot IIIA
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Early Iron Age Kition sequence
Connects the Late Cypriot and later urban phases.
date assertion Monumental rebuilding at Kition in Late Cypriot IIIA — date assertion
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Early Iron Age Kition sequence
Connects the Late Cypriot and later urban phases.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Early Iron Age Kition sequence
Connects the Late Cypriot and later urban phases.
date assertion Earliest secure Phoenician inscriptions at Kition — date assertion
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · dates · Earliest Phoenician inscriptions
Direct language-attestation range, distinct from earlier Levantine material contacts.
entity Kition-Kathari
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · documents early iron history · Ninth-century and later Phoenician evidence
Dates direct Phoenician historical visibility.
date assertion Kition-Kathari — date assertion
informs · documents early iron history · Ninth-century and later Phoenician evidence
Dates direct Phoenician historical visibility.
entity Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · documents epigraphy · Kition inscriptions and historical phases
Provides site-specific synthesis.
date assertion Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition — date assertion
informs · documents epigraphy · Kition inscriptions and historical phases
Provides site-specific synthesis.
geography assertion Kition-Kathari — geography assertion
informs · locates · Kition archaeological area and Kathari excavation locator
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
geography assertion Kition-Bamboula — geography assertion
informs · locates · Bamboula archaeological area locator
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
date assertion Kition continuity through Cypro-Geometric I–II — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis · Tenth–ninth-century Kition
Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
relationship Kition continuity through Cypro-Geometric I–II — occurred at or affected — Kition-Kathari
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis · Tenth–ninth-century Kition
Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
relationship Kition continuity through Cypro-Geometric I–II — occurred at or affected — Kition-Bamboula
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis · Tenth–ninth-century Kition
Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
event Kition continuity through Cypro-Geometric I–II
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis · Tenth–ninth-century Kition
Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis · Tenth–ninth-century Kition
Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis · Tenth–ninth-century Kition
Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Ninth-century inscriptions
Provides the direct attestation.
event Direct Phoenician presence at Kition
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions
Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions
Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions
Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
event Earliest secure Phoenician inscriptions at Kition
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Ninth-century inscriptions
Provides the direct attestation.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Ninth-century inscriptions
Provides the direct attestation.
relationship Direct Phoenician presence at Kition — occurred at or affected — Kition-Kathari
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions
Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
relationship Direct Phoenician presence at Kition — concerns — Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions
Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
relationship Earliest secure Phoenician inscriptions at Kition — concerns — Early Phoenician inscriptions from Kition
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Ninth-century inscriptions
Provides the direct attestation.
relationship Earliest secure Phoenician inscriptions at Kition — occurred at or affected — Kition-Kathari
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Ninth-century inscriptions
Provides the direct attestation.
date assertion Direct Phoenician presence at Kition — date assertion
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Earliest Phoenician levels and inscriptions
Provides direct language and institutional evidence.
date assertion Earliest secure Phoenician inscriptions at Kition — date assertion
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides epigraphic evidence · Ninth-century inscriptions
Provides the direct attestation.
property Direct language attestation
informs · provides example · Phoenician inscriptions at Kition
Provides secure Phoenician case.
property assignment Kition-Kathari — has evidence classification — Direct language attestation
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · supports assignment · Epigraphic evidence
Phoenician inscriptions directly attest language by the ninth century BCE.
claim Kition and Palaepaphos persisted and invested in institutions across the thirteenth–eleventh centuries while several other Late Cypriot urban centres contracted or disappeared.
Evidence confidence: very high
supports · supports · Early Iron Age Kition
Documents eastern coastal continuity.
claim Secure direct evidence for Phoenician language and institutional presence at Kition belongs to the ninth century BCE, even though Levantine contacts are much earlier.
Evidence confidence: very high
supports · supports · Early Phoenician Kition
Provides the inscriptions and sequence.