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Dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline Karageorghis and Ino Nicolaou, this paper comments some iconographic and epigraphic documents concerning the relations between Athens and Cyprus during the Classical period. First, an Attic red‑figure stamnos, attributed to Polygnotos by Beazley (ca. 440). It is decorated with an Amazonomachy on which Theseus’ companion is called Rhoikos, a strange name which could be related to a contemporary king of Amathus. Second, an Attic chous from Kerch (Crimea), with polychrome figures added in relief, all named by inscriptions: Teucros, founder of Salamis, Kypros (as shown by Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter) holding the young Eurysakes, the son of Ajax, then Adonis with Eros, Peitho and Aphrodite. This vase, dated to the last years of the 5th century BC, is a unique iconographic evidence (to be associated to a famous passage of Euripides’ Helena) on the close relations between Athens and the ‘Teucrid’ Evagoras, new king of Salamis. Finally, some inscriptions of the 4th century, published after Nicolaou’s and Pouilloux’ studies, confirm the importance of the Salaminian community at Athens in that period, while the origin of other Cypriots is not precisely defined, as for two ‘launderers of the Ilissos river’. |
