Re: [tied] Re: IE, AA, Nostratic and Ringo

Hello List, Glad to see John, Dennis and Glen still in character. I'm back
up after the move. So, Okay it took a bit longer than ten Days, charge to
business in Bucharest.


"Dennis Poulter" says, responding to John:
(snip)

> As regards the Hyksos, while I haven't read the book you cite, I do know
> that modern scholarship tends to downplay the idea of invasion. I don't

know

> that I agree, since there seems to be a Hurrian element in the Hyksos and
> Hyksos period art seems to include elements from all over the Middle East

up

> to southern Anatolia. Some of the Hyksos pharoahs' names are also

difficult

> to explain in purely Semitic terms. But whatever the truth of it, there is
> still a case that can be argued for a Hyksos invasion of Crete at the end

of

> MMII (destruction of all three palace, introduction of new artistic motifs
> with Syro-Palestinian parallels in MMIII) and for colonisation in Greece
> (shaft grave goods, the name of Mycenae, and the legends of Danaos and
> Kadmos).

There is a lot of new work out of Avaris in the Delta the last few years,
with some surprises, among these a great deal of Minoan art. The latter
includes some Bull dancer stuff. Your read on this? If the intrusion was
the reverse of your scenario, it could answer a lot of questions. I never
envisioned a Hyksos invasion, rather a city settlement gaining power and
wealth (through sea trade?). I was favoring North Syria as Hyksos origin,
but this new stuff has got me thinking dangerously again (still).