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CYPRO-CLASSICAL
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475-325 BC
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| During the Cypro-Classical control of Cyprus was contested between the contemporary "super powers" of the eastern Mediterranean, Athens and Persia. A Cypro-Syllabic inscription on a tablet of bronze found at Idalion recorded a failed joint assault by the Persians and their Phoenician clients from Kition. Eventually however, the Persians succeeded and the Phoenicians drew Idalion and later Tamassos under their control. In 386 B.C., the Athenians and Persians concluded a treaty that recognized Persian rule over the island. Cyprus remained part of the Persian empire until the coming of Alexander the Great. In 333 B.C., Alexander accepted the surrender of the island and incorporated it into his growing empire. |
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A Cypro-Classical Tomb from Marion
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This tomb is from one of the cemeteries belonging to the ancient kingdom of Marion, located on the northwest coast of Cyprus near the modern city of Polis tis Chrysochou and excavated by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in 1929. The tomb chamber includes a niche in the back wall, where you see the remains of a skeleton in situ; a sarcophagus of stone slabs was once located in the middle of the chamber. The openings indicated on each side were also originally niches, although no remains of skeletons were found in them. Over 56 objects, gifts for the deceased, were catalogued, and included both small and large pottery vessels, such as the amphoroid krater with a bowl as a lid and transport amphoras. Metal objects were of iron and of bronze; among them were a bronze tanged mirror and an iron knife. |
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