The Cypriot syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from ca. the 11th up to the 4th century BC, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. A pioneer of that change was king Evagoras of Salamis. It is descended from the Cypro-Minoan syllabary, in turn a variant or derivative of Linear A. Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... Events 1006 BC - David succeeds Saul the King. ... (5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) // Events Invasion of the Celts into Ireland Battle of the Allia and subsequent Gaulish sack of Rome 383 BCE Second Buddhist Councel at Vesali. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Euagoras was the king of Salamis (410 - 374 BC) in Cyprus. ... Salamis may refer to Salamis Island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece, where the Battle of Salamis was fought in 480 B.C.. Salamis, Cyprus, an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus. ... The Cypro-Minoan syllabary, also known as CM I or Linear C is the Late Bronze Age syllabary used on Minoan Cyprus (in use roughly from the 15th to the 12th centuries BC). ... Linear A etched on tablets found in Akrotiri, Santorini. ...

Most texts using the script are in the Arcadocypriot dialect, but some bilingual (Eteocypriot) inscriptions were found in Amathus. Arcadocypriot was an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia and Cyprus between ca. ... Eteocypriot was a language spoken in and around the Aegean islands by 600 BCE. It was written in the Cypriot syllabary, a syllabic script derived from Linear A which was used in Cyprus up to the 4th century BCE. It is conjectured by some linguists to be related to the... Amathus was an ancient city of Cyprus, on the southern coast, about 24 miles west of Larnaka and 6 miles east of Limassol. ...

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External links

• http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cypriot.htm
• http://www.ancientscripts.com/cypriot.html