Re: SV: Ty: Goliath and Uriah the Hittite as IE -

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> Från: Brent Lords <brentlords@...>
> Till: cybalist@eGroups.com
> Ämne: [cybalist] Re: Ty: Goliath and Uriah the Hittite as IE -
> Datum: den 9 december 1999 22:41
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> Tommy wrote:
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> As for the character of the remnants of Indo-Iranian attested in the
> Levant
> in the Bronze Age it is definitely Proto-Indic, not Proto-Iranian in
> character, though there are some differences that suggests that it is
> not
> directly ancestral to Sanskrit, e. g. 'one' is aika rather than eka.
>
> Tommy Tyrberg
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> Tommy
> Glad you wrote this. I disctinctly remember reading somewhere that they
> found a reference to a ruler at one of the Philistine cities, Gath I
> believe, who had a Indo-Aryan name,(proto-indic). But I can't remember
> the reference so I didn't want to toss it out. Also I couldn't remember
> the timing on it.
>
> Brent
>

I don't know about Gath, but the ruler of Ashkelon in the Amarna letters
has a name (Widia) which is regarded as Aryan by some authorities. Several
rulers of other principalities in Palestine mentioned in the Amarna letters
have transparently Aryan names (e. g. Indaruta of Achshaph). The ruler of
Jerusalem (Abdu-Heba) has a hurritic name.

Tommy

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