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7/8/2025, 3:46:07 PM
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I would assume so but the Karnak inscription (in the linked document) mentions them as coming from the North (i.e. Greece) to Egypt which makes that interpretation more problematic. Their armor description seems to match the one given by Homer in the iliad (check after page 91 on the pdf reader for their armor description, page 77 in the books numbering). In certain places Ekwesh is spelled "Akawasha", linked to the Ahhiyawa of Hittite records. Semites are mentioned by other terms in another part of the inscription (Instruction to Amenemhat XIIc)
Nontheless this practice isn't Indo-European like you said, but I can see it developing in Achaean culture due to the extended contact and trade between Mycenae and the Bronze Age levant.
https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/Egypt-Libya/PerireBattle-Manassa2003.pdf
I would assume so but the Karnak inscription (in the linked document) mentions them as coming from the North (i.e. Greece) to Egypt which makes that interpretation more problematic. Their armor description seems to match the one given by Homer in the iliad (check after page 91 on the pdf reader for their armor description, page 77 in the books numbering). In certain places Ekwesh is spelled "Akawasha", linked to the Ahhiyawa of Hittite records. Semites are mentioned by other terms in another part of the inscription (Instruction to Amenemhat XIIc)
Nontheless this practice isn't Indo-European like you said, but I can see it developing in Achaean culture due to the extended contact and trade between Mycenae and the Bronze Age levant.
https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/Egypt-Libya/PerireBattle-Manassa2003.pdf
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