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[YFred]

Re Kibreo ma bellanis gesi yemu? Inda bu sindihannis?

Satire is a difficult thing to explain,YFred. Just enjoy the pictures.

Did Jason and the Argonauts come to nothing?

Got now idea indambu psalis I'm afraid.... but here's a picture of Hercules.



What a legend - makes me proud.

Let me explain!
Argo nauts = nothing (Zero re gumbare)

[The Cypriot]

Let me explain!
Argo nauts = nothing (Zero re gumbare)

Too early in the morning for me, YFred...

[polis]

Yeap, I googled the excerpt to wapedia.mobi and a load of other sites as well. The question is, who is the author of the article and is he/she someone to be taken seriously. There is no reason to base any discussion on cyberspace garbage. Just because someone posted something on a website doesn't make the text authoritative now does it?

Read but have an open mind . I dont say to take anything. If its rational , gives logical explantion and is not rejected by findings or events then that what is relevant > Excluding artciles because they have not come from our own sources we limit our selves only to what we know already! An information is disputed as long as it can be rejected by facts or evidences .

inta xaparka

What the hell are you talking about? Do you actually try to use your brain when posting? Intenet garbage is just garbage. You want to make a point, and maybe learn something on the way, do all of as a favour and try to find a respectable source.

[denizaksulu]

Re Kibreo ma bellanis gesi yemu? Inda bu sindihannis?

Satire is a difficult thing to explain,YFred. Just enjoy the pictures.

Did Jason and the Argonauts come to nothing?

Got now idea indambu psalis I'm afraid.... but here's a picture of Hercules.



What a legend - makes me proud.

But Poirot is Belgian, No?

[Get Real!]

Come on, GR! Next you'll be telling us Jason and the Argonauts is just a story and that he didn't kill all those skeleton soldiers - like in the film...

It must be the first known case of anorexics in battle...

[The Cypriot]

Have you seen Paphitis's plans for a memorial...

[Lit]

Prehistoric Cypriot Art and Culture

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Culture

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pcyp/hd_pcyp.htm

Undeniable influence of the Aegean on Cypriot culture during the Late Bronze Age can be seen in the development of writing, bronzeworking, seal stone carving, jewelry production, and some ceramic styles, especially in the twelfth century B.C., when intermittent Mycenaean settlers were arriving on the island. From about 1500 B.C., the Cypriots began using a still undeciphered script, which very much resembles the Linear A of Minoan Crete. Long examples exist on baked clay tablets and other documents found at urban centers such as Enkomi (on the eastern coast) and Kalavasos (on the southern coast). Engraved and pointed characters of the script appear on a number of vases in the Cesnola Collection at the Metropolitan.

During the Late Bronze Age, Cyprus was also an important center for the manufacture of works of art that show an amalgam of local and foreign influences. Stylistic features and iconographic elements borrowed from Egypt, the Near East, and the Aegean are often mixed together in Cypriot works. Undoubtedly foreign motifs, and the significance they held, were reinterpreted as they became part of distinctive local artistic traditions. Cypriot artisans traveled abroad as well, and in the twelfth century B.C. some Cypriot metalsmiths may have settled as far west as Sicily and Sardinia.

Little is known about the political system on Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age, although the island clearly maintained strong ties with the Near East, especially Syria. Urban centers with palatial structures of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B.C., such as Enkomi and Kition, have been excavated extensively, and rich cemeteries of the same period have yielded luxury goods in a variety of materials. From the beginning of the fourteenth century B.C., there was a significant influx to Cyprus of fine quality Mycenaean vessels, which are found almost exclusively in the tombs of an aristocratic elite. With the destruction of the Mycenaean centers in Greece during the twelfth century B.C., political conditions in the Aegean became unstable and refugees left their homes for safer places, including Cyprus, beginning the Hellenization of the island that would take root over the next two centuries.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hi ... oches.aspx

Other bronze fibulae from eleventh century BC Cypriot tombs are of the 'fiddle-bow' variety, also adopted from the Greek world. The appearance of Greek brooches at this time suggests a change in dress styles, though dress pins of eastern origin were still in use.

Other significant changes in Cyprus in the eleventh century BC included new Mycenaean Greek burial practices in some cemeteries, and the replacement of the Late Bronze Age Cypro-Minoan script (as yet undeciphered) by Cypro-Syllabic and the Greek language. This all adds credence to the view that it was not before 1100 BC that immigration to Cyprus from the Greek world happened on a large scale.

[Lit]

More Museum links:

Geometric and Archaic Cyprus

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gcyp/hd_gcyp.htm

The most important development on Cyprus between about 1200 and 1050 B.C. was the arrival of successive waves of immigrants from the Greek mainland. These newcomers brought with them, and perpetuated, Mycenaean customs of burial, dress, pottery, production, and warfare. At this time, Achaean immigrants introduced Greek to Cyprus. An Achaean society, politically dominant by the eleventh century B.C., most likely created the independent kingdoms ruled by wanaktes, or kings, on the island. The Greeks progressively gained control of major communities, such as Salamis, Kition, Lapithos, Palaeopaphos, and Soli. In the mid-eleventh century B.C.

[Lit]

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ccyp/hd_ccyp.htm

Large numbers of Mycenaean vases began to inundate the Cypriot market at the beginning of the fourteenth century b.c., perhaps as a result of extensive trade relations between the Argolid, a region in the Peloponnesos, and the eastern Mediterranean. The krater was a popular form in the repertoire of Mycenaean vases, found almost exclusively in tombs on Cyprus. Sometimes as many as half of the objects in fourteenth and thirteenth century b.c. tombs on Cyprus consist of Mycenaean pottery.

[Lit]

Pin
Natural pearls, gold-plated bronze
Paphos, Cyprus 200-100 B.C.
The British Museum, London GR 188, 11-15

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/pearls/gallery_pop6.html

This votive pin from the Temple of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, suggests the Greco-Roman connection between pearls and female deities.

The larger pearl is probably from the Persian Gulf; the smaller one may be from freshwater.

© British Museum, London GR 188, 11-15.