ACOR Lecture: "Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites" by Dr. Timothy P. Harrison, April 19 2017

About the lecture:

Please note that the volume of the voice recording is quite low, we recommend listening to this lecture with head phones.

Recent archaeological investigations and an expanding corpus of epigraphic finds have begun to challenge the prevailing view of the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–900 BCE) as an era of cultural and political disruption and ethnic strife in the eastern Mediterranean, as depicted in the Homeric epics and the Hebrew Bible.

The University of Toronto excavations at Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch have discovered evidence for a powerful regional state associated with ‘the Land of Palistin’, comprised of an intriguing amalgam of Aegean, Anatolian (Luwian) and Bronze Age West Syrian cultural traditions. Palistin resurfaces in ninth century Neo-Assyrian sources as the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina, and is eventually destroyed in 738 BCE by the Neo-Assyrian empire builder Tiglath-pileser III, who transforms Tayinat into an Assyrian provincial capital.

Видео ACOR Lecture: "Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites" by Dr. Timothy P. Harrison, April 19 2017 канала ACOR Jordan