Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

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had migrated into their country, and rendered military
service, partly in Egypt and partly in Libya. In the
times of Eamses ILL they appeared again with the
following allies :—

1. Qai-qasha : the Caucasians.

2. A-qa-ua-sha : the Achseans of the Caucasus.

3. Shar-dana : the Sarclones, Chartani.

4. Sha-ka-li-sha : the people of Zagylis.

5. Tu-ri-sha : the Taurians.

6. Zakar, Zakkari : the Zyges, Zygritse.

7. Li-ku : the Ligyes.

S. Uashash : the Ossetes.

To identify these circumcised tribes, as some have
done, with the Achseans, Sardinians, Siculi, Etruscans,
Teucrians, Lycians, and Oscans, of classical antiquity,
is to introduce a serious error into the primitive
history of the classic nations. After her deliverance
from such dangerous enemies as the Libyans and their
allies, Egypt, freed from a pressing incubus, rejoiced.
The chief share in this joy must have belonged to the
inhabitants of the Delta, whose cities and villages
touched on the borders of the enemies, especially the
Colchians and Carians.

In what was afterwards called the Mareotic nome,
the Danau were settled in the district named by the
geographer Ptolemy Teneia, or Taineia. Their next
neighbours were the Purosatha, the Prosodita? of the
same writer ; while along the coast, as far as the great
Catabathmus, the last remnant of the Sha-ka-li-sha still
remained at the time of the Eomans in the village of
Zagylis; and the descendants of the Shardana and the
Zakkar were perpetuated in the small tribes of the
Chartani and the Zygritas. The whole coast beyond, as
far as Cyrene, appears to have been a gathering-ground
■of warlike adventurers of the Colchio-Cretan tribes, up
to the Dardani, whose name is again reflected in the