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Two D.C.-Area Archaeology Events
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/exhibits-events/dc-archaeology-april-2016/


2 posted on 04/01/2016 12:04:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Article on Idalion in Der Kleine Pauly by Ernst Meyer:

Greek-Phoenician city in the inner part of Cyprus already mentioned in the inscriptions of the Assyrian kings Asarhaddon and Asurbanipal, often in the ancient poets as a chief place of the Aphrodite-cult, otherwise hardly mentioned. Ruins at present Dali between Larnaka and Nikosia with 2 acropoleis, city walls and other remains, excavations. In the classical period united with Kition ("Kings of Kition and Idalion"). Many important inscriptions in Cypriot syllabary and Phoenician, Neo-Phoenician inscriptions...

(My translation. This was originally published in 1975 so the article presumably dates to before the Turkish invasion of 1974.)

5 posted on 04/01/2016 1:15:43 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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