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one Phoenician. The names of these latter rulers are as 

 under : — 



GREEK RULERS. (12) 



Assyrian form of Greek Form of City ruled 



Names. Names. over. 



1. E-KI-IS-TU-SU AIGISTHOS Idalion 



2. PI-LA-GU-RA-A PYTHAGORAS Chyteoi 



3. KI-I-STJ KEISOS (or, KISSOS) Salamis 



4. I-TU-U-AN-DA-AR ETEWANDROS Paphos 



5. E-RE-E-SU HERAIOS Soloi 



6. DA-MA-SU DAMASOS Koueion 



7. AD-ME-ZU ADMETOS Tamassos 



8. U-NA-SA-GU-SU ONESAGORAS Ledba 



9. PU-SU-ZU PYTHEAS Nube (Apheodision) 



PHOENICIAN RULER. 

 10. DAMUS1, of the city of Kartikhadasti (Kition). 



The question now arises : Can we identify these ten princes 

 with the ten "Chiefs of the Shield" whose names are given on 

 the Disk 1 ? It is quite possible that we can. We know for 

 certain that the former lived towards the end of the Assyrian 

 era on the island of Cyprus, and we have every reason for 

 believing that the men mentioned on the Disk lived at some 

 part of the same era. This being the case, it is hardly probable, 

 I take it, that in such a short space of time, and in the same 

 island, there were two different lots of men to the same number 

 whose names were important enough to be placed on record. 



As the princes of Cyprus at this time were mostly Ionians, 

 it may well be that the crested head-dress shown on the 

 Phaestos Disk and other Cypriote remains of the Assyrian 

 period is a typically Ionian one. It does not follow, however, 

 that when we can decipher the names of the ten 'Chiefs of 

 Shields" we shall find them Greek ones. As the inscription 

 doubtless contains, in the main, the indigenous speech of 

 Cyprus, it may just as well possess the native names which we 

 must assume would be given to their rulers by the autoch- 

 thones of the island, much in the same way as the Ptolemies 

 had native prenomens bestowed upon them by their Egyptian 

 subjects. 



Woman. — (5) There is no doubt whatever that this sign 

 is the equivalent of one of the symbols' employed for the Later 

 Cypriote "E." The linear character has preserved only the 

 pendant breasts and skirts of the original sign. In words 24 

 and 47 the character is used as a determinative prefix indi- 

 cating the name either of a queen or of a goddess, and in 



(12) See Hall, "Ancient History Near East," p. 496. 



