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Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms / (Record no. 11466)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004520431
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International Standard Book Number 9789004520332
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Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004520431
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Classification number D59
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Subject category code HBLA1
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Subject category code HIS
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Subject category code HIS
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 930
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pestarino, Beatrice,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Beatrice Pestarino.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2022.
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Mnemosyne, Supplements ;
Volume/sequential designation 459
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note What kind of society would you face if you travelled to Cyprus in the 5th-4th cent. BC? This is the first book which analyses in detail the politico-administrative system of Classical Cyprus through the study of inscriptions written in different languages.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Cypriot Chronology and Main Centres -- Introduction: In Search of the Lost Kypriōn Politeia -- 1 Nomina nuda -- 2 Basic Concepts -- 3 The Development of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms -- 4 Historiography -- 5 Epigraphic Sources: The Languages of Cyprus -- 1 Setting the Scene: King, Elite and People -- 1 The Persistence of Kingship and Royal Ideology -- 2 The Elite and the Wanaktes -- 3 Schooling the Elite, Cypriot Education and Political Leadership -- 4 A Cypriot Secret Police -- 5 Δῆμος and πόλις in the Cypriot City-Kingdoms -- 5 ‘I Do Solemnly Swear …’: An Oath of Allegiance as Testimony of Cypriot Royal Supremacy -- 2 The Idalion Bronze Tablet: Cypriot Political and Administrative Institutions in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC -- 1 Establishing the Chronology -- 2 The Eponymous Magistrate and the Polis: Institutional Representatives beyond the King -- 3 Territories, Land-Registers and Legal Owners in the Cypriot City-States -- 4 The Cypriot Land of the King -- 3 The Administration of the Central Palace -- 1 The Rab Soferim, Chief of Scribes, and His Staff in Kition -- 2 RB ḤZ‘NM and RB SRSRM, Other Palace Officials? -- 4 The Role of Carians and Their ‘Interpreter’ in the Kition Administration -- 1 The Cypriot Epigraphic Attestations of KRSY and MLṢ (H)KRSYM -- 2 The KRSYM in the Mediterranean and Near East -- 3 Carians in Cyprus -- 4 The MLṢ HKRSYM, Not Only an Interpreter -- 5 Administrative Officials on the Periphery of the Cypriot City-States: The Bulwer Tablet -- 6 Religious-Civil Officials between the Centre and Periphery in Cypriot Syllabic Greek and Phoenician Inscriptions -- 1 Hunting for Wolves: A Civic-Religious Magistracy in the Central Administration of Paphos -- 2 Civic-Religious Governors in the Peripheral Territory of the City-States, the Cases of Paphos and Lapethos -- Conclusion: The Kypriōn Politeia Regained -- 1 The Consistency of the Cypriot Administrative System -- 2 The Development of the Classical Cypriot Political System between Achaemenid and Greek Influences -- Appendix -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Through new readings and interpretation of Cypriot inscriptions – written in Cypriot-syllabic Greek, Eteocypriot, Phoenician, and alphabetic Greek – Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms is the first book which reconstructs in detail the political and administrative systems of the Classical city-kingdoms of Cyprus. The book investigates the bodies of government beyond the Cypriot kings and the roles played by magistrates and officials in local governments, it analyses accounts of the headquarters of the main administrative and economic activities – such as palace archives, and tax collection hubs –, and demonstrates that these systems were similar in all the city-kingdoms.
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History, Ancient.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History, Ancient
General subdivision Historiography.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History.
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Relationship information Print version:
Title Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022
International Standard Book Number 9789004520332
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Mnemosyne, Supplements ;
Volume/sequential designation 459.
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004520431">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004520431</a>

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