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A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600-300 BC

This monograph is an innovative treatment of the languages of ancient Cyprus over a 1,300 year period, presenting an analysis of a large set of primary sources: more than 1,000 inscriptions, which had never been studied together as a single data set before, some of them unpublished. Multiple languages and writing systems are assessed, via a new and interdisciplinary methodology comprising linguistic and epigraphic research alongside archaeological and historical evidence. It fills a previously neglected gap in the scholarship on the ancient eastern Mediterranean and is the product of five years of intensive research (doctoral and post-doctoral).