posted HELCK, Wolfgang, Das Hyksosproblem, Orientalia 62 (1993), 60-66.
In the M.K. and S.I.P. there were large numbers of 'Asiatics' living in Egypt who were originally brought there as prisoners or as slaves. They are to be distinguished from the Asiatics of Tell ed-Dab'a, among whom there were many Phoenician traders and artisans. The Hyksos fit in neither of these groups, and the reports on their violent behaviour make them appear as a third element. Neither Semitic nor Hurritic, they may well have been pirates from Cyprus and southern Anatolia, intent on usurping the trade of Tell el-Dab'a. W.H.
blackman Member # 1807
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ausar, Are there any drawings of the Hykos?
I believe I've seen a drawing of a war scene with the Sea People in boats.
blackman Member # 1807
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quote:Originally posted by blackman: ausar, Are there any drawings of the Hyksos?
I believe I've seen a drawing of a war scene with the Sea People in boats.
ausar Member # 1797
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Just a few statues with the typical ''mushroon'' style haircut that date to the Second Intermediate Period. We do have depictions of ''Asiatics'' on the tombs of Beni Hassan and of Bedouins presented in the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amun. Other than this,pictoral evidence for Hykos is very scant.
neo*geo Member # 3466
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I'm curious about what language they spoke. The Hyksos seemed to have semitic names very similar to Hebrew names. They had to have some sort of relationship with the Near East.
ausar Member # 1797
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Yurco claims they were both Semetic and Hurrian people. This might explain how Set became synamous with red haired people around this time period. The Hykos symbolized Set with their storm deity.
multisphinx Member # 3595
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where did the hykos originally come from
ausar Member # 1797
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Probabaly somewhere in Palestine. Possibly they were a mixture of Hurrian[Indo-European] and Syrio-Palestinean people.
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