86 On the natural wealth of Cyprus see Strabo, xiv. 6. 5; W. H. Engel, _Kypros_, i. 40-71; F. C. Movers, _Die Phoenizier_, ii. 2, pp. 224 _sq._; G. Maspero, _Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient Classique_, ii. 200 _sq._; E. Oberhummer, _Die Insel Cypern_, i. (Munich, 1903) pp. 175 _sqq._, 243 _sqq._ As to the firs and cedars of Cyprus see Theophrastus, _Historia Plantarum_, v. 7. 1, v. 9. 1. The Cyprians boasted that they could build and rig a ship complete, from her keel to her topsails, with the native products of their island (Ammianus Marcellinus, xiv. 8. 14). 87 G. A. Cooke, _Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, Nos. 12-25, pp. 55-76, 347-349; P. Gardner, _New Chapters in Greek History_ (London, 1892), pp. 179, 185. It has been held that the name of Citium is etymologically identical with Hittite. If that was so, it would seem that the town was built and inhabited by a non-Semitic people before the arrival of the Phoenicians. See _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, _s.v._ “Kittim.” Other traces of this older race, akin to the primitive stock of Asia Minor, have been detected in Cyprus; amongst them the most obvious is the Cyprian syllabary, the characters of which are neither Phoenician nor Greek in origin. See P. Gardner, _op. cit._ pp. 154, 173-175, 178 _sq._ 88 G. A. Cooke, _Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, No. 11, p. 52. 89 Stephanus Byzantius, _s.v._ Ἀμαθοῦς; Pausanias, ix. 41. 2 _sq._ According to Pausanias, there was a remarkable necklace of green stones and gold in the sanctuary of Adonis and Aphrodite at Amathus. The Greeks commonly identified it with the necklace of Harmonia or Eriphyle. A terra-cotta statuette of Astarte, found at Amathus (?), represents her wearing a necklace which she touches with one hand. See L. P. di Cesnola, _Cyprus_ (London, 1877), p. 275. The scanty ruins of Amathus occupy an isolated hill beside the sea. Among them is an enormous stone jar, half buried in the earth, of which the four handles are adorned with figures of bulls. It is probably of Phoenician manufacture. See L. Ross, _Reisen nach Kos, Halikarnassos, Rhodes und der Insel Cypern_ (Halle, 1852), pp. 168 _sqq._ 90 Stephanus Byzantius, _s.v._ Ἀμαθοῦς. For the relation of Adonis to Osiris at Byblus see below, vol. ii. pp. 9 _sq._, 22 _sq._, 127. 91 Hesychius, _s.v._ Μάλικα. 92 L. P. di Cesnola, _Cyprus_, pp. 254-283; G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, iii. (Paris, 1885) pp. 216-222. M23 Kingdom of Paphos. Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos. 93 D. G. Hogarth, _Devia Cypria_ (London, 1889), pp. 1-3; _Encyclopaedia Britannica_,9 vi. 747; Élisée Reclus, _Nouvelle Géographie Universelle_ (Paris, 1879-1894), ix. 668.