Notes and drafts on Alasia IClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

We therefore propose the identification We therefore accept that the present Halba, including the tell Halba-Arqa, must be identified with the Halpa mentioned as the place of concentration of the troops of the "general" and no doubt also, with the site of the camp it formed and, no doubt, also with the camp where had gathered or the forces near which had themselves concentrated the forces of the Peoples of the North and of the Sea the in awaiting to confront to confront the [illegible] the d expeditionary corps Egyptian under the command of Ramses III, in the 8th year of his reign, who had pursued who was to oppose the<s>/ the aim of to pursue of their migration towards the Palestine and Egypt the delta the<s>/ the fertile plains of the of the Nile delta Nile valley.