Subject:
Re:    [ANCIEN-L] The Hyksos
From:  David Hall 
Date:  Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:35:49 -0800
To:    ANCIEN-L@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU

The Hyksos were credited with bringing the horse into Egypt.  The horse and
donkey skulls were quite similar except the horse skull was longer. Donkey
burials were more common; yet Hyksos horse bones were reported at Tell El
Daba and Tell El Maskhuta as part of the grave goods with human burials
(Wapnish 1997).  The Hyksos brought horses with them from the north.  In
Egyptian writings they were referred to as Asiatics, their ethnicity may
have been visible as they had lighter skin.  There were reports of increased
trade originating from the Levant coast during the Hyksos empire as the
Hyksos were on good terms with those people.  In the era immediately after
the Theban army conquered the Hyksos, the amount of ceramic goods and their
contents imported from the Levantine coast was much less.  There was quite
alot of shipping up the Nile to Avaris (Tell El Daba) during the late Hyksos
empire times.

A decent description about the subject was found in: "The Hyksos:  New
Historical and Archaeological Perspectives" (UPA press 1997).

David Q. Hall
d.q.hall@worldnet.att.net
Washington, D.C.


----- Original Message -----
From: Le Bateman 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: The Hyksos



> If the pottery came from these different places   that could also mean

they

> had an active trade with these places, not they came from these places.
> Celtic and Roman artifacts have been found in among the graves  goods of

the

> early Scandinavians, in Denmark which means they had trade with them for
> Frankish swords, Roman coins, and Celtic goods, ect... Does not mean these
> people came from the Poe Valley or Gaul. See History of Denmark.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter R. Mattfeld" 
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: The Hyksos
>
>
> They spoke a Semitic language. They came from different locations, coastal
> Northern Syria, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Canaan. Many of them evidently
> arrived via ships rather than crossing the Northern Sinai. The clues ? The
> pottery they used came from all the preceeding places, but is unattested
> along the Northern Sinai Trade Corridor (the "Ways of Horus" or "Way of

the

> Philistines"). They worshipped Baal (Baal-Hadad the storm god of Syria)

whom

> they assimilated to the Egyptian god Seth.
>
> Profesor Manfred Bietak, the Austrian in charge of excavations at tell
> ed-Daba, believed to be the Hyksos capital of Avaris, has written several
> fine books on the subject, just go to the Google.com "search engine" and

key

> in his name for what he's written, or key in "Hyksos" for numerous

websites

> on these fascinating peoples. Their houses resemble North Syrian

exemplars.

> Donkey burials with the owners are attested in Canaan and Syria- a
> non-Egyptian custom.
>
> I have a number of articles at my website identifying their expulsion ca.
> 1540/1530 BCE with the Israelite Exodus, noting that the Bible's

chronology

> identifies their expulsion with the Exodus (cf. Act 13:17-22, and

Josephus).

> If interested cf. the following urls.
>
> http://www.bibleorigins.net/Exodus1540BCHyksos.html
>
> http://www.bibleorigins.net/ExodusTimnaSerabitelKhadim.html
>
> http://www.bibleorigins.net/GoldenCalfnotEgyptian.html
>
> http://www.bibleorigins.net/ExodusProblems.html
>
> http://www.bibleorigins.net/Hebrewhabiruslaves.html
>
> All the best, Walter
> Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld, M.A. Ed.
> www.bibleorigins.net
> mattfeld12@charter.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Le Bateman" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:13 AM
> Subject: The Hyksos
>
>

> > Can someone tell me what language the Hyksos spoke. Did they leave any

> place

> > names. What were their dynastic names.
> > Le

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