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Inscriptions from Cyprus1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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A.—Larnaca Museum, Inventory Nr. 1425; from Dromolaxia, 3 miles south-west of Larnaca. Inscribed area 38 by 5 cm.; Maximum height of letters 2 cm. Plate I.

“(1)[On the … day] of the month Pa'ulot in the thirty-fourth year of King Pumiyaton, King of Citium and Id[alion, (2) son of Ki]ng Malkyaton, King of Citium and Idalion, this image is that which he gave and set up.”

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References

page 111 note 2 Hill, , Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Cyprus (1904), 21Google Scholar.

page 111 note 3 Friedrich, , Phönizisch-Punische Grammatik (1951), §§ 62, n. 1, 101, n. 1Google Scholar.

page 111 note 4 Cf. Türk, in Roscher's, Lexicon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, iii (19021909), 3318–19Google Scholar; Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique, i (19001905), nr. 5Google Scholar; Gsell, , Afrique du Nord, i (1914), 390Google Scholar, and Honeyman, in Revue de l'histoire des religions, cxxi (1940), 1415Google Scholar.

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page 113 note 1 Frey, , Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum, ii (1952), no. 1399Google Scholar; cf. nos. 1500, 1516, 1526, and Zunz, , Namen der Juden in his Gesammelte Schriften, ii (1876), 68Google Scholar.

page 113 note 2 Cf. Zunz, op. cit., 35; also 31.

page 113 note 3 Zunz, op. cit., 21.

page 114 note 1 Marble sarcophagi in Nazir 51a, Niddah 27b.

page 114 note 2 Broydé, I. in Jewish Encyclopaedia, xii (1906), 192Google Scholar. At the same time it may be noted that when tombstones take the form of a sarcophagus or ossuary the epitaph is usually carved on the end—ibid., 194, and cf. xi (1905), 60.

page 114 note 3 I am indebted to my colleague Mr. M. A. Ghul for this information.

page 114 note 4 The form is attested in Nabatean texts—Cantineau, , Le Nabatéen, ii (1932), 120Google Scholar.