The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ieves that the invasion was caused by thefamine, during which Minephtah supplied the Khati with corn (cf. pp. 431, 433 of this volume).The Shagalasha and the Dauauna have been already meutioned on p. 360, note 1, and p. 432, note 2,of this volume; I may add, with regard to the hitter name, that the texts of Eamses III. sometimesgive the simple form Danau (Greene, Fouilles « Thebes, pi. ii. 1. 18) in place of the more developedform Danauna. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Champollion, Mon. de VEgtjpte, etc., pi. ccxx., and Roseluni,Monument
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ieves that the invasion was caused by thefamine, during which Minephtah supplied the Khati with corn (cf. pp. 431, 433 of this volume).The Shagalasha and the Dauauna have been already meutioned on p. 360, note 1, and p. 432, note 2,of this volume; I may add, with regard to the hitter name, that the texts of Eamses III. sometimesgive the simple form Danau (Greene, Fouilles « Thebes, pi. ii. 1. 18) in place of the more developedform Danauna. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Champollion, Mon. de VEgtjpte, etc., pi. ccxx., and Roseluni,Monumenti Storici, pi. cxxviii. These details are talien from the battle-scenes at Blediuet-Habu (Champollion, Mon. de VEgtipie,etc., pis. his; Rosellini, Mon. Storici, pi. cxxviii.); they were for the first time com-pletely collected and made the subject of study by Cuabas, £(«<!<;« sur VAiiliquiti historique, 2ndedit., pp. 28G, 294-29(5, and again discussed and fresh comparisons made by M. Max MOllek, Asienund Europa, etc., pp. 361-3( ASIATIC TRIBES; THE PULASATI, ZAKKALA, AND TTRSENI. 4G3 ^gean islands.^ Crete was at this time the seat of a maritime empire, whosechiefs were perpetually cruising the seas and harassing the civilized states ofthe Eastern Mediterranean. These sea-royers had grown wealthy through piracy,and contact with the merchants of Syria and Egypt had awakened in tliema taste for a certain luxury and refine-ment, of which we find no traces in theremains of their civilization anterior tothis period. Some of the symbols in the in-scriptions found on their monuments recallcertain of the Egyptian characters, whileothers present an original aspect and seemto be of >dEgean origin. We find in them, ar-ranged in juxtaposition, signs representingflowers, birds, fisli, quadrupeds of variouskinds, members of the human body, andboats and household implements. From thelittle which is known of this script we are inclined to derive it from a similar so
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