Palistin
Palistin Wadasatini / Padasatini | |||||||||
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11th century BC–9th century BC | |||||||||
Capital | Kinalua | ||||||||
Common languages | Luwian | ||||||||
Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||
King | |||||||||
Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||
• Established | 11th century BC | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 9th century BC | ||||||||
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Today part of | Syria Turkey |
Palistin (or Walistin), was an early
History
Palistin was one of the Syro-Hittite states that emerged in Syria after the Late Bronze Age collapse.[1]
It dates to at least the 11th century BC and is known primarily through the inscriptions of its king Taita and his wife.
Archaeological evidence
The excavations at Tell Tayinat in the Turkish Hatay province which might have been the capital of Palistin,[4] revealed two settlements, the first being a Bronze Age Aegean farming community, and the second an Iron Age Syro-Hittite city built on top of the Aegean farming settlement.[3] Palistin is attested as Walistin in an inscription discovered in 1936 at the site.[5]
Palistin ("Watasatina") is also attested in the
Possible link to Philistines
While
Gershon Galil suggests that King David halted the Arameans’ expansion into the Land of Israel on account of his alliance with the southern Philistine kings, as well as with Toi, king of Ḥamath (mentioned in the Bible), who is identified with Taita II, king of Palistin (the northern Sea Peoples).[11]
According to Galil, there are now eight inscriptions recently discovered at different sites indicating that a large kingdom named Palistin existed in this area, which included the cities of Hamath, Aleppo and Carchemish.[12]
The proposed Palistin-Philistines link remains controversial.
If it was the case – as has been proposed by some theories concerning the Sea Peoples – that they originated in the
See also
Citations
- ^ ISBN 9780199218721. OUP Oxford, 2012
- ^ ISBN 9780191002922.
- ^ a b c d e f Before and After the Storm: Crisis Years in Anatolia and Syria between the Fall of the Hittite Empire and the Beginning of a New Era (ca. 1220-1000 BC), A Symposium in Memory of Itamar Singer, University of Pavia, 2012, pp. 7–8.
- ^ ISBN 9780199218721.
- ISBN 9781444360769.
- ^ ISBN 9781589836587.
- ISBN 9789042918177.
- ^ ISBN 9781589837218.
- ^ Benjamin Sass, Taita, King of Palistin: Ca 950-900 BCE?, University of Tel Aviv, 2010.
- ^ Julia Fridman, 2015, "Riddle of the Ages Solved: Where Did the Philistines Come From?", Haaretz (10 February 2016).
- ^ The History of King David in Light of New Epigraphic and Archeological Data Archived 2018-10-01 at the Wayback Machine haifa.ac.il 2012
- ^ The History of King David in Light of New Epigraphic and Archeological Data Archived 2018-10-01 at the Wayback Machine haifa.ac.il 2012
- ^ Emanuel, Jeffrey P. "King Taita and His Palistin: Philstine State or Neo-Hittite Kingdom?" Antiguo Oriente 13 (2015), 11–40 (link).
- ^ T. P. Harrison, "Neo-Hittites in the land of 'Palistin'. Renewed investigations at Tell Ta‘yinat on the plainof Antioch", Near Eastern Archaeology 72(4), 2009, 174–89, esp. 175.
- ^ Mark Weeden, "After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 56(2), 2015, 1–20, esp. 19.