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TESTIMONIES FOR THE EXISTENCE OF TROY.
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in the "Sallier" hieratic papyrus, preserved in the British Museum, the Dardani or Dandani (Dardanians) and the people of Iluna (Ilion)[1] are mentioned, together with the Liku (Lycians) and the people of Pidasa (Pedasus), the Kerkesh or Gergesh (the Gergithians), the Masu (Mysians), and the Akerit[2] (Carians), among the confederates who came to the help of the Hittites (or Khita) under the walls of Kadesh on the Orontes, in the fifth year of Ramses II. (cir. 1333–1300 B.C.). What struck me still more was, that these are precisely the same peoples who are enumerated in the second book of the Iliad as auxiliaries of the Trojans in the defence of their city. It is therefore an established fact, that there was in the Troad, probably about the 14th century B.C., a kingdom of the Dardanians, one of whose principal towns was named Ilium; a kingdom which ranked among the most powerful of Asia Minor, and sent its warriors into Syria to do battle with the Egyptian troops for the defence of Asia; and this agrees admirably with what Homer, and in fact all Greek tradition, says of the power of Troy. Besides, Professor Henry Brugsch-Pasha mentions,[3] that in the mural paintings and inscriptions on a pylon of the temple of Medinet Abou at Thebes may be seen in two groups thirty-nine nations, countries, and cities, which joined in a confederacy against Ramses III. (cir. 1200 B.C.), invaded Egypt, and were defeated by that king. In the first group appear the peoples called Purosata or

  1. ↑ Professor Henry Brugsch-Pasha, in his appendix to my Ilios, pp. 746, 747, recognizes the identity of the Dardani with the Dardanians or Trojans, of the Liku with the Lycians, of Pidasa with the Trojan city Pedasus, of the Kerkesh or Gergesh with the Gergithians of the Troad, of the Masu with the Mysians; but he is sceptical regarding the identification of Ilion with Iluna (Iliuna, Iri-una), for he thinks that this latter name ought to be rectified into Ma-una, Mauon, the Maconians or Meonians (the ancient Lydians).
  2. ↑ François Lenormant, in the Academy of the 21st and 28th of March, 1874, holds the Akerit to be probably identical with the Canans.
  3. ↑ In his Appendix to Ilios, pp. 748, 749.
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