The End of the Bronze Age by Robert Drews;

Author:Robert Drews;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

2 Drews, The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East (Princeton, 1988), especially 74–120; see also Cassin, “Char de guerre,” 298; Littauer and Crouwel, Wheeled Vehicles, 63–65; and Moorey, “Emergence,” 205.

3 Glock, Warfare in Mart and Early Israel, 144.

4 Stillman and Tallis, Armies, 54.

5 In Coming of the Greeks, 102–5, I presented evidence for the use of war chariots by Hattusilis I and by the “Great Hyksos” rulers of Egypt in the second half of the seventeenth century, but overlooked two other very early instances of its use. First, it is certain that chariots were used by Yarim-lim III of Aleppo, one of Hattusilis’s adversaries. Yarim-lim’s chariots, evidently one hundred in number, are indicated by the “Zukrasi text,” an Old Hittite tablet: “Zaludis, the commander of the Manda-troops, (and) Zukra(s)sis, the commander of the heavy-armed (?) troops, of the Ruler (?) of Aleppo came down from Aleppo with his foot-soldiers and his charioteers.” For this translation see Houwink ten Cate, “History of Warfare” 58; for the number, see Beal, Organization, 58. Second, it now seems probable (as I argue in “Myths of Midas”) that the Troad was the first area to be taken over by chariot warriors (soon after 1700 B.C.) and that they built Troy VI.

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