Footnote 4 – Don’t Be Fooled!

Biblical Elishah, one of the descendants of Javan (see Genesis 10:4), may also have some connection with Alashiya, but another of Javan’s descendants, Kittim, is identified with the Cypriot city of Kition (modern Larnaca) and hence Cyprus. In any case, the dating of these references, not to mention their historicity, is too uncertain to make their evidence reliable.