The Cypriot Kingdoms in the Archaic Age: a Multicultural Experience in the Eastern Mediterranean

Anna Cannavò (1)

1 SNS - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

The Cypriot kingship in the Archaic Age is an interesting case of interaction between cultural experiences of different origin. Far from being merely a survival of the Mycenaean-type royalty or an imitation of the Phoenician city-kingdoms, it presents some features of both these institutions, modified and adapted to a different, very heterogeneous cultural context. Spurred and conditioned from time to time by greater and more complex realities active at the border of their world - the Neo-Assyrian empire, 26th dynasty Egypt, the Phoenician city-states, the expanding Greek world - the Cypriot kingdoms evolved during the Archaic Age in original and partially recoverable manners. An outline of the debate about the origin of the Archaic Cypriot kingdoms, as well as some observations on the available evidence are here presented

Domaines: Histoire

Anna Cannavò. The Cypriot Kingdoms in the Archaic Age: a Multicultural Experience in the Eastern Mediterranean. Roma 2008 - XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeology: Meetings Between cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean, 2008, Roma, Italy. http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/bao_document/articoli/5_CANNAVO.pdf. ⟨hal-00946152⟩