Idalion or Idalium (Greek: Ιδάλιον, Idalion, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤉𐤋, ʾDYL, Akkadian: e-di-ʾi-il, Edīl) was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District. The city was founded on the copper trade in the 3rd millennium BC. Its name does not appear, however, on the renowned "Kition Stele", i.e., the Sargon Stele of 707 BC, but a little later on the Prism of Esarhaddon (copies of the text dated to 673-672 BC) known as Niniveh A (Nin. A) wherein the name is prefixed by the modifier URU (city) as URU.e-di-ʾi-il (v. 64)[1] and in similar spellings in Ashurbanipal's annal (648/647 BC) while modified by KUR (land/kingdom) (KUR.e-di-iʾ-li, ii. 38').[2]
Recent excavations have uncovered major buildings on the site which are open to visitors.
A new museum is at the entrance of the site.
^Leichty, E. 2010. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680-669 BC) (RINAP 4). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. p. 9ff.
^Novotny, J. and Jeffers, J. 2018. The royal inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1 (RINAP 5). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. pp. 107-136.
Idalion or Idalium (Greek: Ιδάλιον, Idalion, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤉𐤋, ʾDYL, Akkadian: e-di-ʾi-il, Edīl) was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia...
scripts. In fact, Idalium held the most significant contribution to the decipherment of Cypriot syllabary – the Tablet of Idalium. It is a large bronze...
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inscribed in the Cypriot syllabary, from the fifth century BCE. The tablet is named after Idalion or Idalium, one of ten ancient Cypriot city-kingdoms...
The Idalion Tablet is a 5th-century BC bronze tablet from Idalium (Greek: Ιδάλιον), Cyprus. The script of the tablet is in the Cypriot syllabary and the...
Kition, Amathus, Kourion, Paphos and Soli on the coast and Tamassos, Ledra, Idalium and Chytri in the interior. Cyprus gained independence for some time around...
gods. Now, you who were born from the blue sea, who dwell in the sacred Idalium and open Urium, and in Ancona and reedy Cnidus, and in Amathus and in Golgi...
Phoenicians who came from Tyre, colonized some cities of Cyprus, such as Idalium, Kition, Marion, Salamis and Tamassos and founded the city of Lapathus...
New Castle County, Delaware, US Idalia, a name of the ancient city of Idalium in Cyprus Sobriquet of Greek goddess Aphrodite Idalia Anreus (1932–1998)...
inscriptions found by Robert Hamilton Lang in his excavations at the Temple of Idalium (modern Dali, Cyprus) in 1869, whose work there had been inspired by the...
Nesactium Pula Arena Starčevo culture Stari Grad Plain Antiphonitis Enkomi Idalium Khirokitia Klimonas Kykkos Monastery Notre Dame de Tyre Panagia Apsinthiotissa...
discovered by Robert Hamilton Lang in his excavations at the Temple of Idalium (modern Dali, Cyprus), whose work there had been inspired by the discovery...
Dikaios, P., Dikaios, P. M., & Robinson, E. S. G. (1935). A silver stater of Idalium. The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society,...
prospects. Macmillan. 1878. Narrative of Excavations in a Temple at Dali (Idalium) in Cyprus. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 2nd ser. 11...
mentions its date as year 6 of the reign of Milkyaton, king of Citium and Idalium, which is the year 387. The inscription is as follows: On the sixth day...
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