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m Phoenician. The names of these latter rulers are as 
nder : — 
GREEK RULERS.‘ 
Assyrian form of Greek Form of City ruled 
A Names. Names. over. 
1. E-KI-IS-TU-SU AIGISTHOS IpaALION 
2. PI-LA-GU-RA-A PYTHAGORAS CHYTROI 
3. KI-I-SU KEISOS (or, KISSOS) SALAMIS 
4. I-TU-U-AN-DA-AR ETEWANDROS PAPHOS 
5. E-RE-E-SU . HERAIOS Soror 
6. DA-MA-SU DAMASOS KovRION 
7. AD-ME-ZU ADMETOS TAMASSOS 
8. U-NA-SA-GU-SU ONESAGORAS LEDR. 
9. PU-SU-ZU PYTHEAS NURE  (APRRODISION) 
PHOENICIAN RULER. 
10. DAMUSI, of the city of KanrrkmapasrI (KrrioN). 
The question now arises: Can we identify these ten princes 
with the ten i iie of the Shield" zw names are given on 
the Disk? It is quite possible that we can. We know for 
certain that the former lived towards the Sad of the Assyrian 
era on the island of C rus, and we have ever; reason Ior 
whose names were important enough to be placed on reco 
As the princes of C at this time were mostly Ionians, 
it may well be that vede crested head-dress shown on the : 
Phaestos Disk and other Cypriote remains of the Assyrian 
period is a typically Ionian one. It does not oui seri 
that n can decipher the names of the ten “ fs 
Shields” we shall find them Greek ones. AS ws inscription 
Don" ien sad the main, the indigenous speec we 
it may just as m possess the native n h 
must assume would be given to their rulers by t th 
_ thones of the isha. NS in the same way as the Ptolenie 
ets rra prenomens bestowed upon them by their Egyptian 
: 5) There is no doubt whatever that eee sign 
is "d equivalent of one of the symbols employed for the he 
Cypriote tal "The haracter ae one epee B 24 
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r decia “Ancient History Near East," p. 496. 
