ABSTRACT
Amathus e rst substantial evidence for settlement here dates to late C10 bc. By C8, a signicant Phoenician presence is reected in strong Phoenician inuence on the city’s material culture and religion. Along with the rest of Cyprus, Amathus was subject to Persia for much of C5 and C4. In 498, it refused the request of Onesilus, king of Salamis, to join the other Cypriot cities in the antiPersian Ionian revolt. e last of the kings of Amathus, Androcles, fought on the side of Alexander the Great in his siege of Tyre in 332. e city continued to prosper through the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods until its abandonment in C7 ad at the time of the rst Arab invasions.
