# Wikipedia contributors : Idalion bilingual

> Wikipedia contributors, . 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Tertiary: the Phoenician and Cypriot syllabic (Greek) dedication of 388 BC found by…

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# Idalion bilingual

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**Eteocretan and Eteocypriot** WebpageCopy of **[The Idalion bilingual (British Museum 125320)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/artifacts/ART0DEDXPWMMPP4/the-idalion-bilingual-british-museum-125320)** 0

## What it's used for here

Tertiary: the Phoenician and Cypriot syllabic (Greek) dedication of 388 BC found by R. H. Lang at Dali in 1869, British Museum 125320, which George Smith used in 1871 to decipher the Cypriot syllabary ("On the reading of the Cypriote inscriptions", Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 1, 1872), with Birch, Brandis, Schmidt, Deecke, Siegismund and Ahrens completing the work by 1876. Used for the decipherment history.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[The Idalion bilingual (British Museum 125320)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/artifacts/ART0DEDXPWMMPP4/the-idalion-bilingual-british-museum-125320)

ART

[The Idalion bilingual: George Smith's 1871 plate](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/copies/CPY0DEE9DCEYRRG/the-idalion-bilingual-george-smiths-1871-plate)

CPY

[The Cypriot syllabary reads Greek texts into a full grammatical dialect, yet the same sign values applied to the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEEDGWFMJAH/the-cypriot-syllabary-reads-greek-texts-into-a-full)

Evidence

EVD

[George Smith reads the Cypriot syllabary from the Idalion bilingual and shows its language is Greek](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/events/EVT0DEDWPEM9AYA/george-smith-reads-the-cypriot-syllabary-from-the-idalion)

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[George Smith](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDTGQYP980/george-smith)

FIG

[Eteocretan and Eteocypriot](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot)

The mystery article

MYS

[What language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8TY5JS3/what-language-do-the-eteocypriot-inscriptions-of-amathus)

Question

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## Cite it

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Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Idalion bilingual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idalion_bilingual
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