Battle of Djahy

Pulasati (Philistines) and Tsakkaras: on Pylon of Medinet Habu (Note: The individuals depicted are the Sherden and Tjeker, not the Pulasti and Tjeker)

Sea Peoples in the Battle of Djahy c.1178BCE. Wearing the "feathered head-dress", Peleset (Philistines/ Pulasti) & Tjecker (Tsakkaras) fight against ancient Egypt. Wearing the "horned helmets", the land-Sherden (Shardina) here are mercenaries for Ramesses III . Internet Archive book: The Palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos. Volume I : 1921. Sir Arthur Evans (1851 - 1941) Also Page Text: A group of these warlike sons of Southern and Western Asia Minor, among whom the Luku are mentioned, already appear among the reliefs recording Rameses II's victory over the Hittites and their allies at Kadesh, c. 1296 B.C. ^3 They wear the characteristic plumed cap and the short tunic, which clearly distinguishes them from the gaberdined Syrian types with which they are intermingled. One of these warriors, it will be seen, holds a shield with incurved sides, also of use among the Hittites and which is of great interest as supplying the prototype of the Dipylon or Early Iron Age form in Greece. Pylon of Medinet Habu But the fullest monumental record of these Northern invaders is afforded by the triumphal reliefs of Rameses III on the second pylon of Medinet Habu, ^4 recording their double defeat by land and sea, c. 1200 B.C. The ox-wagons with women and children captured in the struggle on the land side show that it was in some sort a migration of peoples and that the process had already begun which was to convert the coast of Canaan into Palestine. It is, moreover, a significant symptom that the Pulasati, identified with the later Philistines, and the kindred Tzakkaras now come to the fore. In the group shown in Fig. 489 ^5 some of these, distinguished by their plumed caps and short tunics, are seen fighting Egyptian warriors and a Shardina mercenary, who wears the national horned helmet. The appearance of the Asianic confederates, among whom are mentioned the Shakalashas, recalls in various features the figures on the Disk. They hold round shields, but their arms are the sword and spear, and not the bow, the Egyptian archery indeed being the determining factor in their overthrow.

illustration of sherden sea people / nuragic wariors and Mycenaean by rowyn flowerdew