c. 1000 BCE

A Greek name on a bronze spit at Palaepaphos

A bronze spit from Tomb 49 at Palaepaphos-Skales, Cyprus, bears the Greek name Opheltas in the genitive, in a syllabic script. Its tomb dates to the late 11th or early 10th century BCE. Scholars disagree on whether the script is Cypro-Minoan or the Cypriot syllabary.