Global InformationKition Resheph pillars information
The Kition Resheph pillars are two Phoenician inscriptions discovered in Cyprus at Kition in 1860.[1][2] They are notable for mentioning three cities - Kition, Idalion and Tamassos.
They currently reside in the Louvre: AO 7090[3] (CIS I 10) and AO 4826 (CIS I 88).[4]
The reference to Kition in the inscriptions was compared to a bilingual reference to the city in one of the earliest known Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions (see here for image).[5]
- ^ Caquot & Masson 1968, p. 295–321.
- ^ Levy 1864, p. 1.
- ^ AO 7090
- ^ [https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010165607 AO 4826
- ^ Levy 1864, p. 5:"Das Erstere steht fest als Benennung von Citium, einer der neun Hauptstädte Cypern's, durch die Inschrift Athen, 2, 2"