Idalium
![Map showing the ancient city Kingdoms of Cyprus. Idalion is inland at center right.](/Images/godic/202501/19/Chypriotische_koninkrijken5906.PNG")
![Terracotta statue from Idalion, 7th or 6th century BCE. Neues Museum, Berlin](/Images/godic/202501/19/Neues_Museum_-_Kopf_einer_männlichen_Statue_mit_Kegelhelm5906.jpg")
![Idalion, Cup with mythological scenes, a sphinx frieze and the representation of a king vanquishing his enemies. Electrum, Cypro-Archaic I (8th–7th centuries BC). Louvre Museum.](/Images/godic/202501/19/Cup_Idalion_Louvre_N34555906.jpg")
Idalion or Idalium (Greek:Ιδάλιον, Idalion) was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District. The city was founded on the copper trade in the 3rd millennium BCE. Its name in the 8th century BCE was "Ed-di-al" as it appears on the Sargon Stele of 707 BCE, and a little later on the nl:Prism of Esarhaddon.