Idalium

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Idalion or Idalium (, Idalion, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤉𐤋, , Akkadian: e-di-ʾi-il, Edīl) was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District. The city was founded on the copper trade in the 3rd millennium BC. Its name does not appear, however, on the renowned "Kition Stele", i.e., the Sargon Stele of 707 BC, but a little later on the Prism of Esarhaddon (copies of the text dated to 673-672 BC) known as Niniveh A (Nin. A) wherein the name is prefixed by the modifier URU (city) as URU.e-di-ʾi-il (v. 64)Leichty, E. 2010. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680-669 BC) (RINAP 4). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. p. 9ff. and in similar spellings in Ashurbanipal's annal (648/647 BC) while modified by KUR (land/kingdom) (KUR.e-di-iʾ-li, ii. 38')Novotny, J. and Jeffers, J. 2018. The royal inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1 (RINAP 5). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. pp. 107-136.. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: None

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