:The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment
:The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment
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:海洋民族和他们的世界:重新评估
DOI:
10.1086/422282
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
0.6
通讯作者:
H. Genz
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作者:
H. Genz
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The seventeen papers cover a wide range of topics associated with the transitional period from the Bronze to the Iron Age in the Eastern Mediterranean. Included are discussions of archaeological and iconographic material as well as investigations of Egyptian, biblical, Ugaritic, and Hittite texts. In his discussion of the Egyptian texts from Medinet Habu relating to the battles of Ramses III against the Sea Peoples, D. Redford (pp. 1–20) points out that they cannot be taken uncritically as direct historical sources, since they are propagandistic in nature as well as deeply rooted in Egyptian stylistic conventions. I. Singer (pp. 21–33) sums up the evidence for the end of the Hittite Empire according to Syrian and Hittite texts. In particular, the letters from Ugarit illustrate very well the waning power of the Hittite Empire during its last years. 1 Singer’s attempt (pp. 27–28) to relate the Südburg Inscription from Bogazköy to a campaign of Suppiluliuma II against the Sea Peoples, who had landed along the South Anatolian coast, has to be accepted with some reservation, however. The poorly documented reign of Suppiluliuma II does not allow us to put the few historically documented events in a definitive chronological order. Thus far, there is no proof for Singer’s assumption to put the campaign against Cyprus (Alashia) before the campaign against the Lukka lands and Tarhuntassa. 2A. Caubet (pp. 35–51) presents the results from the ongoing excavations at Ras Shamra/Ugarit, illustrating the life in the city during the last phase of the Bronze Age, before the destruction at the beginning of the twelfth century bc According to her, there is no evidence for a resettlement of Ugarit immediately after the destruction. Sherds tentatively identified as LHIIIC material3 should be classified as late LHIIIB material (p. 49).