Archaic Cyprus

Formerly Rhys-Davids Junior Research Fellow in Archaeology, St Hugh's College, Oxford

• Introduction: the problems - Gjerstad's views, an alternative view; dating the Cypro-Archaic period. Part 1 The Cypriot Kingdoms: the local populations - Cypriots and Greeks, Eteocypriots, the Phoenicians; culture and society - Cypriot kings and kingdoms, trading communities, Cypriot sanctuaries and votive offerings, architecture, terracotta and ceramic votives, limestone votives, metal dedications and jewellery, Cypriot tombs and burial customs. Part 2 Cyprus, the Near East and Egypt: Cyprus and Assyria - the stele of Sargon II, Sennacherib and the revolt of Luli, Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal and the "Period of Independence, Assyrian objects and the archaeological record, some claims for Assyrian influence; Cyprus and Egypt - chronology, the political relationship between Cyprus and Egypt, the archaeological evidence; Cyprus and Persia - the Cypriot kings of the sixth century, political organization, the archaeological evidence for a Persian presence. Part 3 Local and foreign contacts: internal relations - the written evidence, archaeological groups, sculpture, ceramics, glyptic groups; external relations - the written evidence, foreign influences in Cyprus, Phoenician influences, Greek influences, foreign imports in Cyprus, Phoenician pottery, Greek pottery, Phoenician glyptic, Greek glyptic, Pheonician statuary, Greek statuary, spheres of influence, Cypriot exports to foreign lands - pottery, statuary, glyptic; summary and conclusions - chronology, Cyprus and the Near East, Egypt and Greece, the Cypriot Kingdoms.

Perhaps the most important achievement of this book is its identification of a discrete and distinctively Cypriot material culture ... This achievement, combined with Reyes's thorough and accessible presentation of the relevant data, should place this book at the very centre of Cypriot historical scholarship.