Franklin, John Curtis. 2016. Kinyras: The Divine Lyre. Hellenic Studies Series 70. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_FranklinJ.Kinyras.2016.
11. Lyric Landscapes of Early Cyprus
The Current Picture
This apparent coincidence of chronology and morphology was systematically elaborated by B. Lawergren as follows:
Lawergren tacitly begins from a (presumed) lack of pre-Greek representations, but prudently avoids definite conclusions about the LBA island. [9] Deger-Jalkotzky more boldly suggested that lyres, previously unknown, are an ethnic marker of Aegean influx (for her other morphological criteria, see below). [10] Similarly, Maas and Snyder treated the Cypriot lyres as a variety of “Greek stringed instruments.” [11] Fariselli, in her valuable recent study of Phoenician music and dance, also assumes a basic contrast between Phoenician and Aegean types in discussing the symposium bowls; but what ‘Aegean’ means in eighth-seventh century cultural terms, and within the iconographic repertoire of the phiálai, is not determined. [12]
A Lost ‘Daughter of Kinyras’ in the Cyprus Museum
The bowl belongs to a larger class of “Egyptian or Egyptianizing pieces consist[ing] chiefly of blue green or white shallow bowls … and scenes with roughly drawn fish, boats, dancing and instrument-playing figures, hieroglyphs, and lotus flowers.” [20] They are variously held to be Egyptian imports, Egyptianizing objects from a Canaanite workshop, or local Cypriot imitations of Egyptian styles and scenes. [21] Some see this elusiveness as their most striking feature, with the more than 130 faience vases and fragments reflecting “the cross currents of cultural influences on the island during this period of eclecticism as no other single body of material does.” [22]
Music, Memory, and the Aegean Diaspora
Cypriot Lyres between East and West
Ethnicity and Musical Identity in the Cypro-Phoenician Symposium Bowls
Bowl [108] | Find Spot | Phase [109] | Ensemble [110] | Lyre Type [111] |
OJA | Lefkandi | I ca. 900 | [?]/L/L/P | E |
Comp7 | Golgoi, Cyprus | 10th century | P/D/L | E |
Cy3 | Idalion, Cyprus | I ca. 825 | D/L/P | E |
U6 | Luristan (?) | I ca. 825 | D/L/L/P | E |
Cr11 | Mt Ida, Crete | II–III | L/L/L | E |
G3 | Olympia | II before 725 | P/D/L | W |
G8 | Sparta (?) | II before 725 | L/L/D/L | E |
Cy6 | Kourion, Cyprus [112] | III early 7th | D/L/P | E |
Cy7 | Kourion, Cyprus | III early 7th | L/P/D(?) | W |
Cy5 | Salamis, Cyprus | IV later 7th | D/P/L | W [113] |
Cy13 | Kourion, Cyprus | IV later 7th | ?/L/P(?) [114] | W [115] |
The Second-Millennium Adaptation of Kinýra
Conclusion
Footnotes