Sea Peoples and the Phoenicians: A Critical Turning Point in History

[Abramelin]

For the record:

Phoenician War Ships

Phoenician shipbuilders are also credited with developing bireme and trireme galleys in which the oars were arranged in two or three banks. Multibanked galleys are a matter of scholarly dispute. Some authorities, who doubt that the quinquiremes of the Greeks and Romans actually had five banks of oars, suggest that the term means merely that five rowers were assigned to each oar.

This rather narrow, strong ship is of the type used from 1500-1000 BC. The upper combat deck is lifted on racks as a platform. Massive scull and prow oars essentially distinguished these vessels from similar boats of that time. These considerably increased manoeuvrability allowing the ship to turn 180 degrees rapidly. In combat these oars could be strongly firmly clamped to the hull so as to be used as battering rams. The mast was removable. Two ranks of oars allow us to refer this ship type of ship as a bireme. Length of the ship was from 25 up to 35 meters, and the width about 4 to 5 meters.

https://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/parliament/2587/ships.html

This Phoenician ship doesn't resemble ANY ship of the Sea Peoples as depicted by the Egyptians.

Edited June 7, 2023 by Abramelin

[Abramelin]

And it also contradicts, somewhat, that the Phoenicians weren't into fighting wars.

But they wanted to defend themselves against attacks on sea.

[Abramelin]

57 minutes ago, docyabut2 said:

look at the tartessos boat with the swan bird built  on it 

That is from the assasinscreed site, lol!

[docyabut2]

 

 

https://peripluscd.wordpress.com/tag/calypso/

[docyabut2]

1 hour ago, Abramelin said:

That is from the assasinscreed site, lol!

"The pirate ship Tartessos is said to originate from the pillars of Herakles and often ventures into our sacred Aegean Sea to attack merchant ships. Kick it back to where it came from."

―Description of the ship on the message board^[src]

Promotional picture of the Tartessos

The Tartessos was a legendary pirate trireme sailing the Aegean Sea, all the way from its native waters around the Pillars of Hercules.

Claimed for their own by the pirates, the bandits used the ship to attack merchant ships on the Aegean, until the Adrestia commanded by the Spartan misthios Kassandra and captained by Barnabas, engaged the Tartessos and her companions in battle, and sank it during the Peloponnesian War. Kassandra claimed the sail and finery of the Tartessos for her own

https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Tartessos

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[Abramelin]

4 minutes ago, docyabut2 said:

"The pirate ship Tartessos is said to originate from the pillars of Herakles and often ventures into our sacred Aegean Sea to attack merchant ships. Kick it back to where it came from."

―Description of the ship on the message board^[src]

Promotional picture of the Tartessos

The Tartessos was a legendary pirate trireme sailing the Aegean Sea, all the way from its native waters around the Pillars of Hercules.

Claimed for their own by the pirates, the bandits used the ship to attack merchant ships on the Aegean, until the Adrestia commanded by the Spartan misthios Kassandra and captained by Barnabas, engaged the Tartessos and her companions in battle, and sank it during the Peloponnesian War. Kassandra claimed the sail and finery of the Tartessos for her own

https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Tartessos

Docy, it's a phantasy site.

[docyabut2]

7 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Docy, it's a phantasy site.

I know but it was interesting 

[The Puzzler]

OK cool, but I’m really over the duck, swan, horse, dragon figureheads for now….

[The Puzzler]

The mention of the Sherdan from the Great Green is before the battle of Kadesh, we should remember this…

The dates are somewhat askew, no,…these words are important….HYPOTHESIZED, CREATION, CONCEPT….is there really anything in it at all?….

“The Sea Peoples are a hypothesized seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions in the East Mediterranean before and during the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BCE).^[1][2] Following the creation of the concept in the 19th century, “

[The Puzzler]

“how the city was destroyed. Many scholars have attempted to explain the reasons for its sudden destruction and have put forward a range of interesting pro- posals.1 In this paper there is no need to repeat what has already been offered. It is, however, worth pointing out that the total decline of Ugarit cannot be entirely ascribed to the Sea Peoples, as hitherto widely accepted; there were other exter- nal and internal factors that altogether contributed to the downfall of the city.”

https://fada.birzeit.edu/bitstream/20.500.11889/4717/1/Halayqa- UF-42 the Demise of Ugarit.pdf

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[The Puzzler]

Many of the cities apparently attacked by Sea People show signs of not necessarily being attacked by Sea People at all, Troy is one, and as above Ugarit and others…

So was the Sea People attacks as big a deal as we think?….

[docyabut2]

https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/17/6/14

[docyabut2]

https://medium.com/the-bronze-age/the-ships-of-the-sea-peoples-part-1-994249af53

 The Tragana Ship is not the boat  its not  a clearer view of the  double bird-head war ship of the Sea

Edited June 8, 2023 by docyabut2

[docyabut2]

   Correct to say its is a clearer view of the  double bird-head war ships of the Sea and its not this boat

Edited June 8, 2023 by docyabut2

[cormac mac airt]

11 hours ago, The Puzzler said:

Many of the cities apparently attacked by Sea People show signs of not necessarily being attacked by Sea People at all, Troy is one, and as above Ugarit and others…

So was the Sea People attacks as big a deal as we think?….

For sake of accuracy is that the current consensus or simply a theory from 30 years ago? 

cormac

[docyabut2]

 

 The Phoenician boat is pretty close.

 

[The Puzzler]

12 hours ago, cormac mac airt said:

For sake of accuracy is that the current consensus or simply a theory from 30 years ago? 

cormac

I think the current. 
PS Oh I get what Ur saying, I don’t know when the paper was dated actually….but in looking for that I found this…but if you have new evidence, please show us.

”Did Ugarit hold alliance with the Sea Peoples, as proposed by Wachsmann, or did it take part in a conspiracy against either Egypt or Ḫatti and Karkamiš, and was then punished by destruc- tion? From the documents of Ramses III there is no sign of any threat towards Ugarit: the city enjoyed good relations with Egypt. The Egyptians and Assyrians never reached as far north-west as Mukiš during their wars with Ḫatti (Astour, 1965, 258). Ugarit may also have realized the weakness of Ḫatti (Singer, 2000, 22) and taken the opportunity to free itself from the Hittite yoke and seek alli- ance with the Egyptians. As has been proven by archaeological evidence, no heavy battle can have taken place within the city, since only a few scattered arrow-heads (55 in the entire city) and no corpses were ever found. The Sea Peoples probably invaded the city”

 

Ugarit built ships, shipbuilders, Hittites used Ugarit built ships, from that port of ship builders at the time…so after a team up with Lukka, where the Kings ships were, “all my ships are in Lukka” …it presents as an uprising from the Ugarit ships who now support Lukka, after the Battle of Kadesh, and as reported by the vizier of Cypress….that the  ships as mentioned, were invading Ugarit itself,  be aware! Said the Vizier. 
A light invasion but enough to damage it. Anti Hittite uprising. 

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[docyabut2]

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[The Puzzler]

8 minutes ago, docyabut2 said:

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The ships are certainly interesting 

[atalante]

2 hours ago, The Puzzler said:

Ugarit built ships, shipbuilders, Hittites used Ugarit built ships, from that port of ship builders at the time…so after a team up with Lukka, where the Kings ships were, “all my ships are in Lukka” …it presents as an uprising from the Ugarit ships who now support Lukka, after the Battle of Kadesh, and as reported by the vizier of Cypress….that the  ships as mentioned, were invading Ugarit itself,  be aware! Said the Vizier. 
A light invasion but enough to damage it. Anti Hittite uprising. 

Political organization, at the time when Ugarit was attacked by ships of the Sea Peoples is demonstrated in the following video clip.  The king of Cyprus ruled over Ugarit; and the Hittites were the overlord of the king of Cyprus.   

So apparently, Ugarit society collapsed in an anti-Hittite uprising.   

[docyabut2]

https://medievalarmor.store/celtic-armor/

[Abramelin]

On 6/9/2023 at 1:11 AM, docyabut2 said:

   Correct to say its is a clearer view of the  double bird-head war ships of the Sea and its not this boat

Yeah. It's a single bird boat.

[Abramelin]

8 hours ago, docyabut2 said:

https://medievalarmor.store/celtic-armor/

I didn't even click your link.

Because it says "medieval".

[Abramelin]

11 hours ago, docyabut2 said:

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That's from Julius Caesar's time.

This topic is about 1200 BCE.

[Abramelin]

On 6/8/2023 at 1:55 PM, The Puzzler said:

Many of the cities apparently attacked by Sea People show signs of not necessarily being attacked by Sea People at all, Troy is one, and as above Ugarit and others…

So was the Sea People attacks as big a deal as we think?….

What signs?