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

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

Smith, Joanna S.

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Art HistoryAncient History General

ISBN10: 1107683963
ISBN13: 9781107683969
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 28 2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 2.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
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.

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