Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 459)
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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. 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 3. The Administration of the Central Palace 1. The Rab Soferim, Chief of Scribes, and His Staff in Kition 1.1. The Chief of Scribes 1.2. The Scribes 2. RB ḤZ‘NM and RB SRSRM, Other Palace Officials? Chapter 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 Chapter 5. Administrative Officials on the Periphery of the Cypriot City-States: The Bulwer Tablet Chapter 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 of Geographical Names Index of Anthroponyms and Theonyms Index of Cypriot Syllabic Words Index of Phoenician Words General Index
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