Re: Odp: Just Joined, got lots of questions -help?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 377
Date: 1999-12-01

 
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Subject: [cybalist] Re: Just Joined, got lots of questions -help?

Sabine writes:
... The one strange thing that might at some time in the future prove to be a
linguistic link is the way the Peleset - warriors are painted in the temple
of Ramses III at Medinet Habu. Their headgear looks like upright feathers
slightly spread in the form of a fan and has for this reason be paralleled
with the sign no. 2 of the famous Cretan Phaistos Disc depicting a man with
exactly that kind of thing on his head. Well, may be we'll live to see...
Exactly this type of headgear (a high cap with a crown of feathers around it) was worn by the Lycians. It attracted Herodotus's attention as he watched Lycian soldiers who served in the Persian army. This is one of the things that are always at the back of my mind when I think about the origin of the Phaistos Disk.
 
There is an excellent, richly illustrated book on the Sea Peoples and other Mediterranean pirates by the Polish historian Tadeusz Łoposzko. Unfortunately, it is in Polish.
 
Piotr