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characters with the Cypriote syllabary, it may be noted that the sign (1a) occurs on the handle of a Mycenean vase recently found near Larnaka, and that the sign (v. supra) is in the Cypriote syllabary ta. Of the Cypriote syllabary two examples were found, one probably of the 5th century B.C., the other of the 4th. The first is a rock-crystal scarabotd intaglio (Plate IV, Curium 6), with the design of a youth holding out a hare in his left hand, to which a dog leaps up. For this type compare a similar gem from Curium¹, and the Alxenor stele at Athens.² The inscription runs: la-ma-ti-le-so, 3. The other example (Fig.77) is a marble base for a statuette, found on the temple site (C). It has a special interest as being inscribed both in Greek letters of the 4th century B.C. and in the Cypriote syllabary:-

Ta-ma-ti-ri ka-se ko-rai e-lo-vo-i-ko-se po-te-si-o-se a-ne-te-ke i-tu-ka-i.

It will be seen that the Cypriote version omits from its place but gives at the end an equivalent, 4. The name does not occur elsewhere.⁵ may be the genitive of on the analogy of , etc.

There remain to be mentioned a Roman lamp inscribed COPPINIS (tomb 114), and an amphora handle (tomb 117) inscribed with a stamp of a face. Of other inscriptions copied but not preserved there are two:

(1) A sepulchral inscription found in tomb 113:

(2) A fragment from site C:

Two others were copied from stones built into the ruined church of Hagia Chrysanagiotissa on the hillside near site E:

1 | 2 Overbeck, Gesch.d.gr.Plastik,1,p.222. Cesnola, Cyprus, Pl.9,Fig.8. ⁴See Collitz,op.cit.No.27, and 3 We should expect rather than to be omitted here (cf.Collitz,Gr.Dial- Inschr.1.p.10 and Hoffmann,Gr.Dialekte,1,p.69, ). For the tendency of p to drop out,cf. hiem(p)s. ⁵Compare the Cypriote name a stone in Brit.Mus.No.240. was the Cypriote name for Hera and Engel,Kypros ii.p.86,says that , which may account for the first connects the word with or ⁶For this spelling, cf. Ross, Demen von part of the name Attika, No.7,p.29; see also examples from Amathus, below (p.96).