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Table B. 



PREHISTORIC AND EARLY HISTORIC AGES OF 



CYPRUS. 



DATES, B.C. 



? Stone Age. 



(Left few traces in Cyprus.) 



Bronze Age. 



3000-2000. Early Bronze Age. 

 2000-1500. Middle Bronze Age. 



1500-1200. Late Bronze Age. (Parallel to XVIII. Dyn. of 

 Egypt). 



Iron Age. 



1200-1000. Early Iron Age. (Transitional from Bronze to 

 Iron.) 



1000- 750. Middle Iron Age. (Geometrical, with iron 

 weapons.) 

 750- 500. Late Iron Age. (Graeco-Phoenician. The period 

 of Assyrian predominance, artistic and polit- 

 ical, was from c. 700-650 b.c. ; but the influence 

 of Assyria "may have begun a little in 

 advance of the Assyrian protectorate. It may 

 have lasted from 750-650 B.C." [My res, "Hand- 

 . book of Cesnola Collection"]). 



Hellenic Age. 



500-300. Early Hellenic Period. 

 300- 50. Middle Hellenic Period. 

 50 b.c. -400 a. d. Late, or Graeco-Roman Period. 



Byzantine Age. 



400 a. d. -1200 (Under the Byzantine Emperors Cyprus became 

 a.d. the seat of an Archbishopric.) 



[This table is compiled solely from particulars given in the 

 "Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus," 

 J. L. Myres, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The 

 Phaestos Disk belongs, I believe, to the period of Assyrian 

 predominance.] 



