The nearest thing to an amphictyony I have seen in all of this affair is the
aggregation of populations to form that loose movement of invading forces
which
first manifested itself in single movements which began to be felt by the
Egyptians
with the Lukka (Lycians), Sherden (Sardinians) and the Meshwesh (perhaps
Mopsos)
crossing the Mediterrannean during the reign of Ramses II. Next came the the
troubles which the Hittites had with peoples on their western front, a
movement led
by the Ahhiyawaya (in Hittite, Achaeans in Greek, "Eqwesh" in Egyptian and
perhaps
Hivite in Hebrew) in about 1240. Within about fifty years the Hittites
disappeared
from the scene, fallen at a time when Ugarit was registering the arrival of
people
in boats attacking its coast. Ugarit then fell into silence along with a
number of
other cities in the trajectory of the sea peoples, cities in Cyprus, cities
in
Syria.
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