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See Donner and Rollig, Kanaanaische und Aramaische Inschriften, pp. 7–8. Inscriptions 32–37 are from Kition.

For example Propertius 2.13.51.

See, for example, inscription nos. 31, 32, 39, 40, 41 and 43 in H. Donner and W. Rollig, Kanaanaische und Aramaische Inschriften, vol. 1, Texte (Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz, 1971), pp. 4–10. Inscription no. 39 (p. 8) is the bilingual inscription from the Adonis temenos at Idalion. Both Adon and Reshef Mikal appear in this inscription. Inscriptions 33–37 are from Kition and mention Ba’al.

“The History of Ancient Idalion in the Light of Recent Excavations,” in Paul Wallace, ed., Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus (Albany: State Univ. of New York, Albany Press, 1995), pp. 32–39.

Herodotus, Histories, 2.156.5.

It is interesting that elsewhere on Cyprus the Young Lord is referred to by name (though he is called “Wah-wah” in the Paphos district). See Olivier Masson, “L’inscription syllabiqes en Paphien recent du village de Tala (Paphos),” Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus (1988), pp. 63–68.

Sacrifices in the Archaic precinct of the Temple of Apollo Hylates at Kourion used primarily the right hind limb. See S.J.M. Davis, “Animal Sacrifices,” in D. Buitron et. al., The Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 109 (Göteborg, Sweden: Astrians Forlag, 1996), pp. 181–182.

See Gaber, “In Search of Adonis.”

Anita Walker, “Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Building Near the Site of Lang’s Temple,” in L. Stager, A. Walker and G. Wright, eds., American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report: Seasons of 1971 and 1972 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1974), pp. 76–77.

See Pamela Gaber, “In Search of Adonis,” in F. Vandenabeele and R. Laffineur, eds., Cypriot Stone Sculpture: Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Cypriot Studies, Brussels-Liege, 17–19 May, 1993(Brussels-Liege: Univ. of Belgium, Institute of Archaeology, 1994), pp. 161–165, pls. 47–50; and Gaber and Margaret Morden, “The 1992 Excavations in the Adonis Temenos at Idalion,” Cahiers des etudes chypriotes 2 (1992), pp. 21–26, figs. 1–5.