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Hardcover, tan cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 422pp., Index. First edition. “Terence B. Mitford, Reader in Archaeology in the University of St. Andrews, and sometime member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, presents a comprehensive study of all known inscriptions from the ancient city of Kourion on the island of Cyprus. These date from the seventh, perhaps the eighth century B.C., through the Classical, Hellenistic, and Imperial Roman periods, to the early Byzantine era. The finds are fully illustrated by photographs and line drawings. Tables of syllabic signs include the signaries of Archaic Kourion, the Treasure of Kourion, Classical Kourion, Archaic and Classical Paphos, and the Common Cypriot Signary of the Classical Period. A full bibliography, a concordance of the inscriptions, and plans of archaeological sites are provided, the whole forming a richly annotated & illustrated corpus of Kourion & its environs.” [from dust-jacket] No previous ownership marks. Mild age soiling and white marks to dust-jacket. Small price-sticker removed. Book condition is as new, no marking undrlining, or highlighting, a square, clean, frsh copy. Fine in a near very good dust-jacket.