Marion, Cyprus
Marion was an Iron Age kingdom on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Location
The oldest evidence of its existence are coins that mention even a king. Equating with Pu -su -su, which is mentioned on the prism of the Assyrian king Assurhaddon as the Kingdom of Iadnata is not without controversy. The location of the capital of this kingdom is also not known with absolute certainty. After Stylax it was between solos and Amathus, after Stadiasmos at the western end of the island near the Akamas Peninsula. The city could receive either located at Pomos or Ayias Kononas. Most researchers put it with an ancient settlement near Polis Khrysokhous on the Bay of Khrysokhous in the northwest of the island of the same. Since 1983, the Princeton University leads here, as well as the nearby Arsinoe excavations, it neither inscriptions have been found which clearly identify the place as Marion, nor coins of Marion.
The area of Khrysokhou ( Peristerona, Pelethousa ) belonged to the 6th century probably about Amathus.
Excavations at Polis Khrysokhous
The settlement at Annapolis Khrysokhous goes back at least to the Chalcolithic period. The first architectural remains date back to the period around 1000 BC The archaic city was surrounded by a massive city wall. There were uncovered several temples among others, one contained the remains of a colossal archaic terracotta statue that was originally about 3 m high. Greek is attested since the 4th century.
The cemetery was discovered in 1870. It provided mainly Attic pottery and was used from the 6th to the 4th century.
History
Marion was 312 BC ( 304-282 BC) destroyed by Ptolemy I Soter, as King Stasioikos II had taken the side of his rival Antigonus ( Diodorus 19, 79).
Kings of Marion
- Doxandros
- Sasmas, son of Doxandros. Some of his coins bear next to its name in the Phoenician letter syllabary ML, about 470-460.
- Stasioikos, coin inscriptions in syllabic
- Timocharis, coin inscriptions in syllabic
- Stasioikos II ( 330-312 BC), the last king of Marion, coins with inscriptions in both writing systems, and Phoenician syllabary writing.
The order and the reign of the ruler is not secured. Doxandros and Sasmas were allegedly used by 499/408 by the Persians, kimion brought 451/450 Stasioikos I and Timocharis to the throne. As Franz Georg Maier points out, is based acceptance of the Medophilie of Sasmas on his Phoenician name, and then his assignment to the time after the Ionian revolt.