A NOTE ON THE (POSSIBLE) ORIGIN OF THE PELESET

Driessen, Jan
(2024) Pasiphae : rivista di filologia e antichita egee — Vol. XVIII, n° 1, p. 109-115 (2024)

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There has been plenty of discussion on the origin and nature of the Peleset, a group of warriors depicted on the Medinet Habu temple of Ramesses III. If the ethnonym should be read as pulasti or poulasti, as has been suggested, a link may be made with the toponym Pylos/Pyla and a Linear B reading of the ethnonym *pu-ra-wa-tu/Pyla-wastu is proposed. This could then imply that the Peleset may have had a link with the Bronze Age settlement of Pyla on Cyprus, occupied and deserted precisely in the time span described by the Medinet Habu reliefs.
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Driessen, J. (2024). A NOTE ON THE (POSSIBLE) ORIGIN OF THE PELESET. Pasiphae : rivista di filologia e antichita egee, XVIII(1), 109-115. https://doi.org/10.19272/202433301007 (Original work published 2024)