Classical Studies 3903 Lecture 16: Classical Studies 3903 Lecture Notes February 7 2019
13 Feb 2019
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The end and the beginning: late bronze age / early iron age transition. Some of the warriors are wearing different helmets. Indicates that the pharaoh hired mercenaries to fight. Known as the great inscription on the second pylon. "the foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands, all at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from hatti, qode, carchemish, arzawa and alashiya on, being cut off [i. e. destroyed] at one time. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward egypt, while the flame was prepared before them. Their confederation was the peleset, tjeker, shekelesh, denyen and weshesh, lands united. Influx of new cultural traits: rise of the philistines in the south at ashkelon, gaza, ashdod, ekron and. Colours and clay are local but it is still aegean pottery.
