<p>Dramatic social and political change marks the period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age (ca. 1300-700 BCE) across the Mediterranean. Inland palatial centers of bureaucratic power weakened or collapsed ca. 1200 BCE while entrepreneurial exchange by sea survived and even expanded, becoming the Mediterranean-wide network of Phoenician trade. At the heart of that system was Kition, one of the largest harbor cities of ancient Cyprus. Earlier research has suggested that Phoenician rule was established at Kition after the abandonment of part of its Bronze Age settlement. A reexamination of Kition's architecture, stratigraphy, inscriptions, sculpture, and ceramics demonstrates that it was not abandoned. This study emphasizes the placement and scale of images and how they reveal the development of economic and social control at Kition from its establishment in the thirteenth century BCE until the development of a centralized form of government by the Phoenicians, backed by the Assyrian king, in 707 BCE.</p>

Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age

Arts & Photography

Smith, Joanna S.

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

This volume explores different approaches to the 'contextual' study of Cypriot scripts and seals and fosters a more integrated view of cultural continuities and discontinuities through time and space, and among different methods of recording in Cypriot archaeology. Contributors include Nicolle Hirschfeld, Jennifer M Webb, Georgia Bonny Bazemore, Andres T Reyes, and Barry B Powell.

Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages (AIA Colloquia and Conference Papers)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Archaeological Institute of America

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