Tamassos
Sign in to saveTamassos (Greek: Ταμασσός) or Tamasos (Greek: Τἀμασος) – names Latinized as Tamassus or Tamasus – was a city-kingdom in ancient Cyprus, one of the ten kingdoms of Cyprus. It was situated in the great central plain of the island, south-east of Soli, on the road from Soli to Tremithus. It is an archaeological site bordering the village of Politiko, about southwest of Nicosia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tamassos
- Ancient site.native_name
- Ταμασσός
- Ancient site.image
- File:Ancient_kingdoms_of_Cyprus_en.svg
- Ancient site.caption
- Map showing the ancient city-kingdoms of Cyprus
- Ancient site.map_type
- Cyprus
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Cyprus
- Ancient site.region
- Nicosia District
- Ancient site.management
- Cyprus Department of Antiquities
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Foundations, inhabitants, and economy
- Phoenician and Greek influence
- Decline
- Archaeological site
- Necropolis
- Royal tombs
- Tamassos today
- See also
- References
- External links
Tamassos (Greek: Ταμασσός) or Tamasos (Greek: Τἀμασος) – names Latinized as Tamassus or Tamasus – was a city-kingdom in ancient Cyprus, one of the ten kingdoms of Cyprus. It was situated in the great central plain of the island, south-east of Soli, on the road from Soli to Tremithus. It is an archaeological site bordering the village of Politiko, about southwest of Nicosia.
An Assyrian inscription from () refers to it as Tamesi, described as a city-state which paid tribute to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. As there were copper mines in the neighbourhood, it was probably the Temese mentioned by Homer (Odyssey, I, 184), which was in his time the principal copper market of the island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamassos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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