Karen Radner summed up the contents of the cuneiform inscription in 2010: The stele was erected around 707 BC yet does not refer to the specific names of all 10 princedoms of Cyprus at the time.

[5] The 10 cities of Cyprus are listed somewhat later by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (680–669 BCE) as Idalion, Chytroi, Soloi, Paphos, Salamis, Kourion, Tamassos, the "New Town", Ledrai and “Nuria”.

[6] Karen Radner said in 2010 that "In the inscriptions of Sargon we find, for the first time, that islands are used to mark the scope of Assyria's might—perhaps an indication of growing awareness that the world is more than one landmass enclosed by the sea".

[7] Karen Radner writes that Cyprus "was at that time dominated (to use a deliberately vague term) by the Phoenician kingdom of Tyre which, according to the Assyrian testimony, treated the local city-states as its vassals."

Gradually, the role of Tyre diminished, and Assyrians began to establish direct contacts.