The Lukka Before they were Sea Peoples

The Lukka are perhaps the best known of the Sea Peoples. They are listed among the Sea Peoples in the Pharaoh Merneptah's inscriptions. But they are actually attested in other Bronze Age sources allowing us to sketch out a limited history of the Lukka Lands. The Lukka appear not only in Egyptian sources but also several Hittite sources where they frequently appear as antagonists to the Late Bronze Age empire as well as other Late Bronze Age polities like Ugarit. They also appear in several of the so-called Ahhiyawan texts where Ahhiyawa or Ahhiya are referenced by the Hittites. The Lukka Lands reputation as rough and wild continued into the Iron Age where it was the setting for several well known Greek myths. Join the channel to get access to perks:    / @dig.archaeology   Some Sources: William Moran trans., The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1992. Gary Beckman, Trevor Bryce, and Eric Cline eds. The Ahhiyawa Texts. SBL Writings from the Ancient World 28. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Gary Beckman trans., Hittite Diplomatic Texts. Edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Trevor Bryce, The Trojans and their Neighbours. New York: Routledge, 2006. Trevor Bryce, The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986. Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Trevor Bryce, Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. Michael Astour, “New Evidence on the Last days of Ugarit,” American Journal of Archaeology, 68 (1965): 253-258. Frederik Christiaan Woudhuizen, THE ETHNICITY OF THE SEA PEOPLES: DE ETNICITEIT VAN DE ZEEVOLKEN. Dissertation. Colleen Manassa, The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC. Yale Egyptological Seminar. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Ann E. Killebrew and Ginnar Lehman eds., The Philistines and Other “Sea Peoples” in Text and Archaeology. Atlanta: SBL, 2013. 00:00 The Lukka 00:54 The Assuwan Lugga 01:50 Lukka Organization and Geography 03:19 EA 38 04:12 The Lukka in Egyptian and Hittite Sources 04:22 Kadesh 04:46 Aleksandu 05:20 The Tawagalawa Letter 06:09 Yalburt Inscription 07:11 Suppiluliuma II 07:45 Lukka and Ugarit 10:15 The Lukka after the Bronze Age