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[handwritten: century] and of the 13th century during which Achaean chiefs seized the power at Enkomi in Cyprus.
It would then be necessary to abandon the date of Eratosthenes, as Mr Jean Bérard has already proposed in a paper presented to this [handwritten: e]Academy.
Towards the end of the 13th century, in concert with the Lukki, another tribe of the Sea Peoples, established in Cyprus since the 14th century, according to the Tell Amarna letters, Achaeans called Akaivasha by the [handwritten: s]Egyptians, had allied themselves with the Libyans in an attempt at invasion of the Nile valley.
It is specified that the Akaivasha came from a country in the middle of the sea, a designation which could strictly apply to the Peloponnese, but which only takes its true meaning if we admit that it refers to Cyprus.
Moreover, it would have been and would still be difficult today, for a flotilla coming from Greece, to operate in the Nile delta [handwritten: sans] without having secured[handwritten: ?] beforehand the base in Cyprus.. On the other hand, all attempts to locate on the south coast of Asia Minor the land of the Ahiyawa spoken of by the Hittites do violence to the texts.
The difficulties are resolved if we place the eastern support point of the Achaeans in Cyprus.
In the victory hymn of Merneptah, it is specified that a great number of these Achaeans perished at his hand in the bloody battle which lasted six hours.
Handwritten: qui
This encounter had taken place around 1219, according to Rowton's chronology, ton, slightly reduced compared with the dates proposed by MM. Drioton and Vandier, according to whom the event would fall around in 1227.
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