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AMATHUS , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Cyprus, on the S. See also:coast, about 24 M. W. of Larnaka and 6 in. E. of Limassol, among sandy hills and See also:sand-See also:dunes, which perhaps explain its name in See also:Greek (fiµaaos, sand). The earliest remains hitherto found on the site are tombs of the See also:early See also:Iron See also:Age See also:period of Graeco-Phoenician influences (l000–600 B.C.). Amathus is identified by some (E. Oberhummer, See also:Die Insel Cypern, i., 1902, pp. 13-14; but see CIinrIl) with Kartihadasti (Phoenician " New-See also:Town ") in the Cypriote See also:tribute-See also:list of Esarhaddon of See also:Assyria (668 B.C.). It certainly maintained strong Phoenician sympathies, for it was its refusal to join the phil-Hellene See also:league of Onesilas of See also:Salamis which provoked the revolt of Cyprus from See also:Persia in 500–494 B.C. (See also:Herod. v. 105), when Amathus was besieged unsuccessfully and avenged itself by the See also:capture and See also:execution of Onesilas. The phil-Hellene See also:Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus about 385-380 B.C. in See also:conjunction with See also:Citium and See also:Soli (Diod. Sic. xiv. 98); and even after See also:Alexander the city resisted See also:annexation, and was See also:bound over to give hostages to Seleucus (Diod. Sic. xix. 62). Its See also:political importance now ended, but its See also:temple of See also:Adonis and See also:Aphrodite (See also:Venus Amathusia) remained famous in See also:Roman See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time.
The See also:wealth of Amathus was derived partly from its See also:corn (See also:Strabo 340, quoting Hipponax, fl. 540 B.C.), partly from its See also:copper mines (See also:Ovid, Met. x. 220, 531), of which traces can be seen inland (G. Mariti, i. 187; L. See also:Ross, Inselreise, iv. 195; W. H. See also:Engel, Kypros, i. n r ff.). Ovid also mentions its See also:sheep (Met. X. 227); the epithet :tmathusia in Roman See also:poetry often means little more than "Cypriote," attesting however the fame of the city.
Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished See also:patriarch of See also:Alexandria (Johannes Eleemon), as See also:late as 6o6–616, and a ruined See also:Byzantine See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church marks the site; but it was already
See also:AMAZON 783
almost deserted when See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion won Cyprus by a victory there over See also:Isaac See also:Comnenus in 1191. The See also:rich See also:necropolis, already partly plundered then, has yielded valuable See also:works of See also:art to New See also:York (L. P. di -See also:Cesnola, Cyprus, 1878 passim) and to the See also:British Museum (Excavations in Cyprus, 1894 (1899) passim) ; but the city has vanished, except fragments of See also:wall and of a See also:great See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone cistern on the See also:acropolis. A similar See also:vessel was transported to the Louvre in 1867. Two small sanctuaries, with terra-See also:cotta votive offerings of Graeco-Phoenician age, See also:lie not far off, but the great See also:shrine of Adonis and Aphrodite has not been identified (M. Ohnefalsch-See also:Richter, Kypros, i. ch.1). {J. L.
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