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I was the valiant Montu [= war-god], standing fast at their head, so that they might gaze upon the capturing of my two hands; King of Upper and Lower Egypt: Usermare-Meriamon; Son of Re: Ramses III. As for those who reached my frontier, their seed is not, their heart and soul are finished forever and ever. As for those who came forward together on the sea, the full flame was in front of them at the Nile mouths, while a stockade of lances surrounded them on the shore, (so that they were) dragged (ashore), hemmed in, prostrated on the beach, slain, and made into heaps from tail to head. Their ships and their goods were as if fallen into the water. I made the lands turn back from mentioning Egypt; for when they pronounce my name in their land, then they are burned up. Since I have sat upon the throne of Harakhte [= manifestation of Horus] and the Great Enchantress [= uraeus] was fixed upon my head like Re, I have not let the countries behold the frontiers of Egypt, to boast thereof to the Nine Bows [= Egypts traditional enemies]. I have taken away their land, their frontiers being added to mine. Their chiefs and their tribespeople are mine with praise, for I am upon the ways of the plans of the All- Lord, my august, divine father, the Lord of Gods.” 100 Text to the scene of the land battle (Fig. 5) “His majesty sets out for Zahi like unto Montu, to crush every country that violates his frontier. His troops are like bulls ready on the field of battle; his horses are like falcons in the midst of small birds before the Nine Bows, bearing victory. Amon, his august father, is a shield for him; King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Ruler of the Nine Bows, Lord of the Two Lands (…).” 101 Text to the scene of the sea battle (Fig. 6) “Now the northern countries, which were in their isles, were quivering in their bodies. They penetrated the channels of the Nile mouths. Their nostrils have ceased (to function, so that) their desire is breathe the breath. His majesty is gone forth like a whirlwind against them, fighting on the battle field like a runner. The dread of him and the terror of him have entered in their bodies; (they are) capsized and overwhelmed in their places. Their hearts are taken away; their soul is flown away. Their weapons are scattered in the sea. His arrow pierces him whom he has wished among them, while the fugitive is become one fallen into the water. His majesty is like an enraged lion, attacking his assailant with his pawns; plundering on his right hand and powerful on his left hand, like Set[h] destroying the serpent ‘Evil of 100 Edgerton & Wilson 1936: 53-6; cf. Breasted 1927: Vol. IV, no. 64; Pritchard 1969: 262-3; Strobel 1976: 14; Drews 1993a: 51; Peden 1994: 29-31. 101 Edgerton & Wilson 1936: 38; cf. Pritchard 1969: 263. 52 Character’. It is Amon-Re who has overthrown for him the lands and has crushed for him every land under his feet; King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands: Usermare-Meriamon.” 102 Depicted prisoners of war (Fig. 7): 1. chief of Hatti, 2. chief of Amor, 3. chieftain of the foe of the Tjeker, 4. Sherden of the sea, 5. chieftain of the foe Sha[su], 6. Teresh of the sea, 7. chieftain of the Pe(leset). 103 Südstele, year 12 (= 1172 BC). Mention of Tjeker, Peleset, Denyen, Weshesh and Shekelesh. 104 Stele from Deir el Medineh Pharaoh boasts of having defeated Peleset and Teresh who attacked Egypt. 105 Papyrus Harris “I extended all the boundaries of Egypt: I overthrew those who invaded them from (or: in) their lands. I slew the Denyen in (= who are in) their isles, the Tjeker and the Peleset were made ashes. The Sherden and the Weshesh of the sea, they were made as those that exist not, taken captive at one time, brought as captives to Egypt, like the sand of the shore. I settled them in strongholds, bound in my name. Numerous were their classes like hundred-thousands. I taxed them all, in clothing and grain from the storehouses and granaries each year.” 106 The Wenamon story, as preserved on the Golenischeff papyrus, informs us about the period after the wars with the Sea Peoples, in which Egypt can no longer exert its power in its former dependencies along the coastal region of the Levant. 102 Edgerton & Wilson 1936: 41-2; cf. Pritchard 1963: 263. 103 Strobel 1976: 18; Sandars 1980: 106-7, afb. 68. 104 Kitchen 1983: no. 73, 9 f.; cf. Lehmann 1985: 23-4. 105 Lepsius 1900: Vol. III, 218c; Drews 1993a: 51. 106 Breasted 1927: Vol. IV, no. 403; Strobel 1976: 18.
Fig. 5. Land battle scene of Medinet Habu (from Oren 2000: 96, Fig. 5.5). Fig. 6. Sea battle scene of Medinet Habu (from Oren 2000: 98, Fig. 5.6). Fig. 7. Prisoners of war: (a) Hittite, (b) Amorite, (c) Tjeker, (d) Sherden, (e) Shasu, and (f) Teresh (from Nibbi 1975: Pl. I). 53
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Page 12 and 13: Frontispiece. Rowers depicted on a
Page 15 and 16: In a work which deals with the ethn
Page 17 and 18: similar vein, to accuse Georges Dum
Page 19: upon a pre-existing local populatio
Page 22 and 23: certainty about the 8th century BC
Page 24 and 25: with the Heraklids Kresphontes and
Page 26 and 27: after the end of the Bronze Age. 43
Page 28 and 29: Miletos may be due to an historical
Page 30 and 31: It lies at hand to correlate the fa
Page 32 and 33: more, he rearranged the western pro
Page 35 and 36: 4. AN HISTORIOGRAPHIC OUTLINE In th
Page 37 and 38: The view of Maspero that the Sea Pe
Page 39 and 40: ples as mere pirates goes Helck’s
Page 41 and 42: site or manoeuvring in mountainous
Page 43 and 44: The contemporary sources with a bea
Page 45 and 46: Enkomi cylinder seal (Inv. no. 19.1
Page 47 and 48: Tablet 1687 from Enkomi Side A (15)
Page 49 and 50: RS 20.238 ù dú-nu-na-ta dan-níš
Page 51: Libyans (year 5) as well as success
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Page 57 and 58: 6. LUKKA AND THE LUKKA LANDS Since
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Page 61 and 62: the archaeological record by the Ma
Page 63 and 64: adopting the then modern Indo-Aryan
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Page 67: linguistic features from an hypothe
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Page 74 and 75: give and take a few dialectal reshu
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Asherah, Ugaritic y-, -m)!”. 453
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inhabitants of the Mesara plain at
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sociated from that of Mls, a predec
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found here. 513 It is interesting t
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The story continues with the Sherde
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On the basis of the combined eviden
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our identification of the Weshesh w
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(Histories I, 57) reports, adopted
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lesh are geographically based, bein
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APPENDIX I: ON THE DECIPHERMENT OF
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Evans CHIC CL value attestation 64.
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identical to Egyptian bi’ty “ki
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LUWIAN ROMAN INDIC GERMANIC F1 Tark
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linguistic point of view, however,
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meat) or as a sacred animal per se:
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Behn, Friedrich, 1924, Hausurnen. B
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tury B.C’. Orientalia 56. Pp. 1-3
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Gardiner, Alan H., 1947, Ancient Eg
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Ägäis und die Levante während de
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terranean in the mid second millenn
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occidentale. Studia Mediterranea 8.
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Sommer, Ferdinand, 1932, Die A®®i
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hele andere etnische groep rekenen.
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