Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms / / Beatrice Pestarino.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 459
• VerfasserIn: Pestarino, Beatrice,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 459.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Notes: What kind of society would you face if you travelled to Cyprus in the 5th-4th cent. BC? This is the first book which analyses in detail the politico-administrative system of Classical Cyprus through the study of inscriptions written in different languages.

Through new readings and interpretation of Cypriot inscriptions – written in Cypriot-syllabic Greek, Eteocypriot, Phoenician, and alphabetic Greek – Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms is the first book which reconstructs in detail the p...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Cypriot Chronology and Main Centres
• Introduction: In Search of the Lost Kypriōn Politeia
• 1 Nomina nuda
• 2 Basic Concepts
• 3 The Development of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms
• 4 Historiography
• 5 Epigraphic Sources: The Languages of Cyprus
• 1 Setting the Scene: King, Elite and People
• 1 The Persistence of Kingship and Royal Ideology
• 2 The Elite and the Wanaktes
• 3 Schooling the Elite, Cypriot Education and Political Leadership
• 4 A Cypriot Secret Police
• 5 Δῆμος and πόλις in the Cypriot City-Kingdoms
• 5 ‘I Do Solemnly Swear …’: An Oath of Allegiance as Testimony of Cypriot Royal Supremacy
• 2 The Idalion Bronze Tablet: Cypriot Political and Administrative Institutions in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
• 1 Establishing the Chronology
• 2 The Eponymous Magistrate and the Polis: Institutional Representatives beyond the King
• 3 Territories, Land-Registers and Legal Owners in the Cypriot City-States
• 4 The Cypriot Land of the King
• 3 The Administration of the Central Palace
• 1 The Rab Soferim, Chief of Scribes, and His Staff in Kition
• 2 RB ḤZ‘NM and RB SRSRM, Other Palace Officials?
• 4 The Role of Carians and Their ‘Interpreter’ in the Kition Administration
• 1 The Cypriot Epigraphic Attestations of KRSY and MLṢ (H)KRSYM
• 2 The KRSYM in the Mediterranean and Near East
• 3 Carians in Cyprus
• 4 The MLṢ HKRSYM, Not Only an Interpreter
• 5 Administrative Officials on the Periphery of the Cypriot City-States: The Bulwer Tablet
• 6 Religious-Civil Officials between the Centre and Periphery in Cypriot Syllabic Greek and Phoenician Inscriptions
• 1 Hunting for Wolves: A Civic-Religious Magistracy in the Central Administration of Paphos
• 2 Civic-Religious Governors in the Peripheral Territory of the City-States, the Cases of Paphos and Lapethos
• Conclusion: The Kypriōn Politeia Regained
• 1 The Consistency of the Cypriot Administrative System
• 2 The Development of the Classical Cypriot Political System between Achaemenid and Greek Influences
• Appendix
• Plates
• Bibliography
• Index.