Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms

Beatrice Pestarino, Ph.D. (2021), University College London, is postdoctoral researcher at The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH), University of Haifa and visiting fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), University of Harvard. She has published articles in peer reviewed journals on the socio-political structure of Classical Cyprus.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsCypriot Chronology and Main CentresIntroduction: In Search of the Lost Kypriōn Politeia1 Nomina nuda2 Basic Concepts3 The Development of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms4 Historiography5 Epigraphic Sources: The Languages of Cyprus1 Setting the Scene: King, Elite and People1 The Persistence of Kingship and Royal Ideology2 The Elite and the Wanaktes3 Schooling the Elite, Cypriot Education and Political Leadership4 A Cypriot Secret Police5 Δῆμος and πόλις in the Cypriot City-Kingdoms5 ‘I Do Solemnly Swear …’: An Oath of Allegiance as Testimony of Cypriot Royal Supremacy2 The Idalion Bronze Tablet: Cypriot Political and Administrative Institutions in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC1 Establishing the Chronology2 The Eponymous Magistrate and the Polis: Institutional Representatives beyond the King3 Territories, Land-Registers and Legal Owners in the Cypriot City-States4 The Cypriot Land of the King3 The Administration of the Central Palace1 The Rab Soferim, Chief of Scribes, and His Staff in Kition2 RB ḤZ‘NM and RB SRSRM, Other Palace Officials?4 The Role of Carians and Their ‘Interpreter’ in the Kition Administration1 The Cypriot Epigraphic Attestations of KRSY and MLṢ (H)KRSYM2 The KRSYM in the Mediterranean and Near East3 Carians in Cyprus4 The MLṢ HKRSYM, Not Only an Interpreter5 Administrative Officials on the Periphery of the Cypriot City-States: The Bulwer Tablet6 Religious-Civil Officials between the Centre and Periphery in Cypriot Syllabic Greek and Phoenician Inscriptions1 Hunting for Wolves: A Civic-Religious Magistracy in the Central Administration of Paphos2 Civic-Religious Governors in the Peripheral Territory of the City-States, the Cases of Paphos and LapethosConclusion: The Kypriōn Politeia Regained1 The Consistency of the Cypriot Administrative System2 The Development of the Classical Cypriot Political System between Achaemenid and Greek InfluencesAppendixPlatesBibliographyIndex