See John A. Wilson, ANET, p. 28, for Wen-Amon, where Dor is called a town of the Tjeker (=Sikil). Recently Dr. Avner Raban, of the Center for Maritime Studies at Haifa University, has discovered the remains of the ancient harbor used by Wen-Amon in the 11th century B.C. at Dor (see Raban, The Harbor of the Sea Peoples at Dor, Biblical Archaeologist 50 (1987), pp. 118126.) The terrestrial archaeologist at Dor, Professor Ephraim Stern, considers the fortification system with glacis to have been built initially by the Sea Peoples, and specifically by the Sikils (personal communication). Shortly before the fall of Ugarit at the hands of the Sea Peoples, the Sikalayu, who live on ships, were raiding and kidnapping along the coast, according to one Akkadian letter found at Ugarit (RS 34.129). Among the last tablets written there the last king of Ugarit despairs, saying: The enemy ships are already here, they have set fire to my towns and have done very great damage in the country (RS 20.238). These seafarers and pirates (the Sikalayu = Sikils) later moved down the coast and settled in the region of Dor.
Several scholars misidentified the Sikalayu with the Sea Peoples group known as Shekelesh (e.g. G.A. Lehmann, Die Sikalayuein neues Zeugnis zu den seevolkerHeerfahrten im spaten 13 Jh. V. Chr. [RS 34. 129], Ugarit Forschung 11 [1979], pp. 481494).
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