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Manfred Bietak, “Thebes-West (Luqsor): Vorbericht über die ersten vier Grabungskampagnen (1969–1971),” Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 278, Band 4 (Vienna, 1972), pp. 17–26.

See U. Hölscher, The Excavations of Medinet Habu II, Oriental Institute Publications 41 (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1939), pp. 68–72, esp. 71 and fig. 59. See also Manfred Bietak, “An Iron Age Four-Room House in Ramesside Egypt,” Eretz Israel 23 (1991), pp. 10–12, and “Der Aufenhalt ‘Israels’ in Ägypten und der Zeitpunkt der ‘Landnahme’ aus heutiger archäologischer Sicht,” Egypt and the Levant 10 (2000), pp. 179–186.

Lee I. Levine, The Ancient Synagogue (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000), p. 96.

For an English translation of these texts, see William L. Moran, The Amarna Letters, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992), pp. 105–107, 110–111.

See plates 132–133 in Nina de Garis Davies, The Tomb of Huy, Viceroy of Nubia in the Reign of Tut’ankhamun (Theban Tomb Series, Fourth Memoir), (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1926).

See plate 8 in Norman de G. Davies and R.O. Faulkner, “A Syrian Trading Venture to Egypt,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology vol. 33 (1947), pp. 40–46.

This notion is based on the theory, first formulated by the German Egyptologist Rainer Stadelmann, that both the land and naval battle scenes at Medinet Habu were set in the eastern Delta; see “Die Abwehr der Seevölker unter Ramses III,” Saeculum 19.2–3 (1968), pp. 156–171.

RS 34.129. See Hoftijzer and van Soldt, “Texts from Ugarit,” p. 343.

For an English translation of the text (KTU 4.40) with further bibliography, see Jacob Hoftijzer and Wilfred H. van Soldt, “Texts from Ugarit Pertaining to Seafaring,” in Shelly Wachsmann, Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant, (College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1998), p. 337.