The pharaoh was once more waiting for them. No? Dated to about 1100 BCE, at the end of the 21st dynasty (which had numerous short-reigned pharaohs), this document simply lists names. A large-scale movement of people is indicated ... the original center of disturbance was in the Carpatho-Danubian region of Europe. The merit stele of Ramesses II (the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt) discovered in there recorded an attack on ancient Egypt by some sea power. Egyptians, Canaanites, and Philistines in the Period of the Emergence of Early Israel, PlosOne dating the Sea People destruction of the Levant to 1192–90 BCE, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sea_Peoples&oldid=992366738, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with incomplete citations from September 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2016, Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images, Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from September 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Eqwesh, Lukka, Shekelesh, Sherden, Teresh, Denyen, Peleset, Shekelesh, Sherden, Teresh, Tjekker, Weshesh, Denyen (in their isles), Teresh (of the sea), Sherden (of the sea), Denyen, Peleset, Sherden, Tjekker, Weshesh, Denyen (in their isles), Weshesh (of the sea), RS 34.129, the earliest letter, found on the south side of the city, from "the Great King", presumably, RS L 1, RS 20.238 and RS 20.18, are a set from the, This page was last edited on 4 December 2020, at 22:07. This text narrates a contemporary great movement of peoples in the eastern Mediterranean, as a result of which "the lands were removed and scattered to the fray. More recently, Brian Fagan has shown how mid-winter storms from the Atlantic were diverted to travel north of the Pyrenees and the Alps, bringing wetter conditions to Central Europe, but drought to the Eastern Mediterranean. [8] In 1867, de Rougé published his Excerpts of a dissertation on the attacks directed against Egypt by the peoples of the Mediterranean in the 14th century BCE, which focused primarily on the battles of Ramesses II and Merneptah and which proposed translations for many of the geographic names included in the hieroglyphic inscriptions. It is plausible to assume that the Tanis and Aswan Stelae refer to the same event, in which case they reinforce each other. The land forces were defeated separately. This time, ancient Egyptian created a specific term to address them, “the nine bows”. The archaeological evidence from the southern coastal plain of ancient Canaan, termed Philistia in the Hebrew Bible, indicates a disruption[97] of the Canaanite culture that existed during the Late Bronze Age and its replacement (with some integration) by a culture with a possibly foreign (mainly Aegean) origin. A camp was set up in Amurru. ... in Philistia, the producers of Mycenaean IIIC pottery must be identified as the Philistines. 166, 187 of his book, Uncertainty of the dates is not a case of no evidence but of selecting among several possible dates. Behind the enemy, who press upon you? No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya on, being cut off [i.e. These events are described in four texts (*3): the Great Karnak Inscription, the Cairo Column, the Athribis Stela, and the Hymn of Victory, otherwise known as the Israel Stela. The Sea Peoples were actually several groups of people, including the Sherden, Peleset, Denyen, Lukka, Shekelesh, and others. Operation Odysseus Playlist link- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDb22nlVXGgd2rdNu1C44t-hoYXA9bL2MSupport new videos from Epimetheus on Patreon! The enemy fleet was ambushed there, their ships overturned, and the men dragged up on shore and executed ad hoc. Cagliari: Edizioni Della Torre. There is no evidence of any collaboration with the Hittites or malicious intent on their part, and if Ramesses considered it, he never left any record of that consideration. He has brought his wife and his children – leaders of the camp, and he has reached the western boundary in the fields of Perire", "His majesty was enraged at their report, like a lion", assembled his court and gave a rousing speech. Sea Peoples. The land army was also routed within Egyptian controlled territory. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. (ed.) [96] They were not part of the Egyptian list of Sea Peoples, and were later referred to as Aramaeans. The earliest pirates in human history were born in the Mediterranean during the classical age. The sea peoples were described by the Egyptian written records as a loose federation of seafarers and named according to their geographic origins in lists of captives of the Pharaoh. Compare with the invasion in Ramesses II reign, the sea peoples brought great destruction to Egypt in Merneptah reign. The Medinet Habu inscriptions from which the Sea Peoples concept was first described remain the primary source and "the basis of virtually all significant discussions of them". [1][2][10][11], The historical narrative stems primarily from seven Ancient Egyptian sources[24] and although in these inscriptions the designation "of the sea" does not appear in relation to all of these peoples,[1][11] the term "Sea Peoples" is commonly used in modern publications to refer to the following nine peoples, in alphabetical order:[25][26], The Medinet Habu inscriptions from which the Sea Peoples concept was first described remain the primary source and "the basis of virtually all significant discussions of them".[55]. It is actually a term used in ancient Egypt to represent the enemies of Egypt. Swords identical to those of the Sherden have been found in Sardinia, dating back to 1650 BCE, The self-name of the Etruscans, Rasna, does not lend itself to the Tyrrhenian derivation, although it has been suggested that this was itself derived from an earlier form T'Rasna. Eberhard Zangger in the Aramco article available on-line and referenced under External links below. Although some advocates of the Philistine or Greek migration hypotheses identify all the Mycenaeans or Sea Peoples as ethnically Greek, John Chadwick (founder, with Michael Ventris, of Linear B studies) adopts instead the multiple ethnicity view. He also captured some Sherden and Weshesh "of the sea" and settled them in Egypt. Some think that they were a mix of different peoples like the Sherden who became the Sardinians and the Sekelesh who became Sicilians etc. Ramses’ records describe the Sea Peoples as consisting of a confederation of tribes including the Sherden, Peleset, Denyen, Shekelesh and others. The possibility that the Teresh were connected on the one hand with the Tyrrhenians,[107] believed to be an Etruscan-related culture, and on the other with Taruisa, a Hittite name possibly referring to Troy,[108] had been considered by the ancient Romans. Two of the peoples who settled in the Levant had traditions that may connect them to Crete: the Tjeker and the Peleset. The Sea Peoples were actually several groups of people, including the Sherden, Peleset, Denyen, Lukka, Shekelesh, and others. Certainly, there seem to be suggestive parallels between the war gear and helmets of the Greeks ... and those of the Sea Peoples ... Wood would also include the Sherden and Shekelesh, pointing out that "there were migrations of Greek-speaking peoples to the same place [Sardinia and Sicily] at this time." [23], The theory was taken up by other scholars such as Eduard Meyer and became the generally accepted theory amongst Egyptologists and Orientalists. The scribe copied the poem onto Papyrus in the time of. Medinet Habu northeast outside wall, showing wide view and a close-up sketch of the right-hand side relief. In order to contend with ancient Egypt, the declining Hittite Empire even aligned with the sea peoples. Between 1276 and 1178 BC, a confederation of pirates known collectively as the Sea Peoples terrorized the coastal cities and civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean. The "Poem of Pentaur", describing the battle survived also. In a very long time, the earliest pirates known to the people were those brave warriors in ancient Greece as well as those in the Homeric Epics. [6], French Egyptologist Emmanuel de Rougé first used the term peuples de la mer (literally "peoples of the sea") in 1855 in a description of reliefs on the Second Pylon at Medinet Habu documenting Year 8 of Ramesses III. Purported ancient seafaring confederation of invaders, A partial description of the hieroglyphic text at Medinet Habu on the right tower of Second Pylon (. Given the combat power of captured attackers, they were later recruited and deployed by Ramesses II to the border between Egypt and the Hittite Empire, and even took part in the famous battle of Kadesh. In Egyptian records of the second wave of Sea Peoples attacks in c. 1186 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Rameses III, the Shardana, Teresh, and Shekelesh are still considered to be a menace, but new names also appear: the Denyen, Tjeker, Weshesh, and Peleset. [127] Barry Weiss,[128] using the Palmer Drought Index for 35 Greek, Turkish, and Middle Eastern weather stations, showed that a drought of the kinds that persisted from January 1972 would have affected all of the sites associated with the Late Bronze Age collapse. Robert Drews presents a map showing the destruction sites of 47 fortified major settlements, which he terms "Major Sites Destroyed in the Catastrophe". Later in the inscription Merneptah receives news of the attack: ... the third season, saying: "The wretched, fallen chief of Libya, Meryey, son of Ded, has fallen upon the country of Tehenu with his bowmen – Sherden, Shekelesh, Ekwesh, Lukka, Teresh, Taking the best of every warrior and every man of war of his country. [104], The identifications of Denyen with the Greek Danaans and Ekwesh with the Greek Achaeans are long-standing issues in Bronze Age scholarship, whether Greek, Hittite or Biblical, especially as they lived "in the isles". Archaeological evidence indicates that many fortified sites of the Greek domain were destroyed in the late 13th and early 12th century BCE, which was understood in the mid-20th century to have been simultaneous or nearly so and was attributed to the Dorian invasion championed by Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati. The Sea Peoples were a very successful concept invented in 1855 by the French Egyptologist Emmanuel de Rougé and his successor, Gaston Maspero. But according to the Ancient History Encyclopedia, the Sea Peoples were also mercenaries and some of them fought in Ramesses' own army, too. 7. The imminent collision of the Egyptian and Hittite empires became obvious to both, and they both prepared campaigns against the strategic midpoint of Kadesh for the next year. [verification needed] The Roman poet Virgil refers to this belief when he depicts Aeneas as escaping the fall of Troy by coming to Latium to found a line descending to Romulus, first king of Rome. The eruption is thus unlikely to be connected to the Sea Peoples. 24, RSL I = Nougayril et al., (1968) 86–86, no.23. Only the Peleset and Tjeker are mentioned, but the list is lost in a lacuna. Amongst them are some of the sea peoples spoken of in the Egyptian inscriptions previously mentioned, and many of the peoples who would later take part in the great migrations of the 12th century BCE (see Appendix A to the Battle of Kadesh). For example, select groups, or members of groups, of the Sea People, such as the Sherden or Shardana, were used as mercenaries by Egyptian Pharaohs such as Ramesses II. [citation needed], The poem lists the peoples who went to Kadesh as allies of the Hittites. In the Western Nile Delta under invasion, a large number of Egyptians were forced to give up their land and fled. In Ramesses II's time, the Egyptian account of the Sea Peoples says they were allies of the Hittites, who were driven from the Egyptian trade center of Kadesh by Ramesses' army in 1274 BC. Exactly which peoples were consistently in the Nine Bows is not clear, but present at the battle were the Libyans, some neighboring Meshwesh, and possibly a separate revolt in the following year involving peoples from the eastern Mediterranean, including the Kheta (or Hittites), or Syrians, and (in the Israel Stele) for the first time in history, the Israelites. They are not necessarily alternative or contradictory hypotheses about the sea peoples; any or all might be mainly or partly true. Their origins are slightly mysterious, as we don't have a specific place we can tie them to, though most scholars put their origins in the Aegean The Linear B Tablets of Pylos in the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean demonstrate increased slave raiding and the spread of mercenaries and migratory peoples and their subsequent resettlement. In it, the persona of Ramses III says, "I slew the Denyen (D'-yn-yw-n) in their isles" and "burned" the Tjeker and Peleset, implying a maritime raid of his own. Who were the mysterious sea people that wiped out ancient Egypt? Breasted wrote in a footnote regarding this designation "It is noticeable that this designation, both here and in the Athribis Stela (1. In addition, the hydrological condition of the estuary of Nile was very complex, therefore the fleet of sea peoples had little defense against the ambush of Egyptians. Recent examinations of the eruption of the Santorini volcano estimate its occurrence at between 1660 and 1613 BCE, centuries before the first appearances of the Sea Peoples in Egypt. A chapter of the history of Egyptology", "The Philistines and Other "Sea Peoples" in Text and Archaeology", "The Egyptian Interest in Mycenaean Greece", Western Mediterranean overview: Peninsular Italy, Sicily and Sardinia at the time of the Sea peoples, "The Sea Peoples, the Victorians, and Us". [62], The pharaoh's action against them is attested in a single narrative found in three sources. [115][116][117][118][119] The site is dated to the period between the 13th and 12th centuries BCE, that of the Sea Peoples' invasions. Judging from the archaeological research on ancient Egypt, this engagement between Egypt and the sea peoples was just the beginning of wars between them. In the fifth year of Merneptahreign, (about 1207 BC) Egypt was attacked by a coalition of Labu(Libyans) and Sea Peoples at the border of the western Delta. The Egyptians knew the hydrological condition of the Nile better, so their fleet lurked at the estuary of Nile, ambushed the enemy fleet when they were going into the Nile. The Sea Peoples did not learn any lessons from this defeat, as they repeated their mistake in Year 8 with a similar result. [58], The Sherden prisoners were subsequently incorporated into the Egyptian army for service on the Hittite frontier by Ramesses and were involved as Egyptian soldiers in the Battle of Kadesh. First, that Greek sources are agreed that the original name of the island was Ichnussa (RE, IA.2: 2482–2484 [1920] s.v. After all, simply judging from ancient Egyptian records, the composition of the sea peoples was very complex, and the description of their image was closer to that of Sardinian and Mycenaean. It doesn’t mean the organization of sea peoples was called “the nine bows”. Tentative identifications of the Sea Peoples listed in Egyptian documents are as follows: Ekwesh, a group of Bronze Age Greeks (Achaeans; Ahhiyawa in Hittite texts); Teresh, Tyrrhenians (Tyrsenoi), known to later Greeks as sailors and pirates from Anatolia, ancestors of the Etruscans; Luka, a coastal people of western Anatolia, also known from Hittite sources (their name survives in classical Lycia on the … [83], The earliest ethnic group[84] later considered among the Sea Peoples is believed to be attested in Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Abishemu obelisk found in the Temple of the Obelisks at Byblos by Maurice Dunand. In fact, many had sought employment with the Egyptians or were in a diplomatic relationship for a few centuries before the Late Bronze Age collapse. A breif look at the ancient civlization that once existed in the land of New Canan during the Bronze age. After Ramesses III, there were little more records about the sea peoples. One of those forces was the mysterious Sea people who attempted to invade numerous times during the reign of Ramses II and his Successor Merenptah but they were easily defeated because they weren’t powerful enough to face the powerful military forces of Egypt. If different times are allowed on the Danube, they are not in the Aegean: "all this destruction must be dated to the same period about 1200 [BCE]."[131]. Here, however, the Sea People joined with the Libyan tribes creating a strong force of some 16,000 men. Still others like Manuel Robbins in his "Collapse of the Bronze age" claim they were from Anatolia. The way these bandits attacked was hardly different from that of pirates in later ages. He points out also that places destroyed on Cyprus at the time (such as Kition) were rebuilt by a new Greek-speaking population. No land could stand before their arms, from Hatti, Kode, Carchemish, Arzawa, Alashiya on being cut off. Merenptah continued to be troubled by the Sea Peoples who allied themselves with the Libyans to invade the Nile Delta. Their confederation was the Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen and Weshesh, lands united. Apart from the estuary of Nile, the whole Eastern Mediterranean region including Levant, Hittite Empire and Mitanni Empire were also invaded by the sea peoples. Ramesses divided his Egyptian forces, which were then ambushed piecemeal by the Hittite army and nearly defeated. This extensive inscription is stated in full in English in the, Translation by John A. Wilson in Pritchard, J.B. The foreign troops in the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. V. Karageorghis, J. Karageorghis, "L'Isola di Afrodite", Wood p. 221 summarizes that a general climatological crisis in the, Quote: "My father, behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities(?) Ugas, Giovanni 2016 "Shardana e Sardegna. In other words, at that time the sea peoples were no longer strangers to Egyptians, instead, they were labeled as the enemy of Egypt. The campaign is recorded more extensively on the inner northwest panel of the first court. J. H. Breasted, p. 243, citing Lines 13–15 of the inscription, Translation by Egerton and Wilson, 1936, plates 37–39, lines 8–23. In the Athribis Stela Ekwesh is cut off by a numeral from the preceding, showing that the designation there belongs only to them. As the invasion this time was on a larger scale, Ramesses III did not send his fleet to intercept the enemy fleet. The discovery of “sea peoples” extends the history of piracy to the 14th century BC. [9] Since the early 1990s, his migration theory has been brought into question by a number of scholars. The attack was two-pronged, one by sea and one by land; that is, the Sea Peoples divided their forces. Making use of their splitting, Ramesses III ordered his fleet to block the fleet of sea peoples outside the estuary of Nile; he himself led his troop to surround and annihilate the army of sea peoples which were invading alone and without reinforcement. [69], Ramesses III, the second king of the Egyptian 20th Dynasty, who reigned for most of the first half of the 12th century BCE, was forced to deal with a later wave of invasions of the Sea Peoples—the best-recorded of these in his eighth year. [ie: cut down]", Ramesses' comments about the scale of the Sea Peoples' onslaught in the eastern Mediterranean are confirmed by the destruction of the states of Hatti, Ugarit, Ashkelon and Hazor around this time. It should be stressed that the invasions were not merely military operations, but involved the movements of large populations, by land and sea, seeking new lands to settle. [103] Crete at the time was populated by peoples speaking many languages, among which were Mycenaean Greek and Eteocretan, the descendant of the language of the Minoans. The Philistines were people of Greek origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century bc, about the time of the arrival of the Israelites. This land battle occurred in the vicinity of Djahy against "the northern countries". The conflict occurred somewhere at the shores of the eastern Nile Delta and partly on the borders of the Egyptian Empire in Syria, although their precise locations are unknown. Furthermore, the proportion of Greeks must have been relatively small. This made their troops even more spectacular. These were called the š3sw (Shasu), meaning "those who move on foot". Have your troops and chariots enter there, and await the enemy with great resolution! [132] They are concentrated in the Levant, with some in Greece and Anatolia. [57] An inscription by Ramesses II on the stela from Tanis which recorded the Sherden raiders' raid and subsequent capture speaks of the continuous threat they posed to Egypt's Mediterranean coasts: the unruly Sherden whom no one had ever known how to combat, they came boldly sailing in their warships from the midst of the sea, none being able to withstand them. Others like JA Wilson in his "Burden of Egypt" think they were Indo Europeans. [3][4] Once again they used the same tactic, splitting their huge troops into two parts and invaded from both sea and land. Some people, such as the Lukka, were included in both categories of land and sea people. [60], The poem relates that the previously captured Sherden were not only working for the Pharaoh but were also formulating a plan of battle for him; i.e. [71], The fact that several civilizations collapsed around 1175 BCE, has led to the suggestion that the Sea Peoples may have been involved at the end of the Hittite, Mycenaean and Mitanni kingdoms. As the Hittitologist Trevor Bryce observes:[73]. I popoli del mare, gli alleati del Nordafrica e la fine dei Grandi Regni". Following the river currents, the Egyptian fleet charged at enemy fleet. The written records of Rameses III also empahsized that the the Sea people had come from the far reaches of … The American Hittitologist Gary Beckman writes, on page 23 of Akkadica 120 (2000):[72], A terminus ante quem for the destruction of the Hittite empire has been recognized in an inscription carved at Medinet Habu in Egypt in the eighth year of Ramesses III (1175 BCE). The biggest controversy about the sea peoples is, where exactly were they from? Are they not stationed near you? Papyrus Harris I of the period, found behind the temple, suggests a wider campaign against the Sea Peoples but does not mention the date. During the Twentieth Dynasty around the 12th century BC, the largest war broke out between Pharaoh Ramesses III and the sea peoples. The articles in Wikipedia on related topics use one set of dates by convention but these and all dates based on them are not the only possible. (1968) Ugaritica V: 87–90 no. [12] Existing theories variously propose equating them with several Aegean tribes, raiders from Central Europe, scattered soldiers who turned to piracy or who had become refugees, and links with natural disasters such as earthquakes or climatic shifts. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them. The text before the King includes the following: Primary sources: Early publications of the theory. This time, they are revealed unquestionably as Sea Peoples: the Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen and Weshesh, which are classified as "foreign countries" in the inscription. According to the records in this period, similar to the Gauls who fought the Romans in later time, the sea peoples often brought their families with them, like a family migration. He is careful to point out that the Greeks would have been only one element among many that comprised the sea peoples. The Rhetorical Stela to Ramesses III, Chapel C, Deir el-Medina records a similar narrative. Considering that Anatolian connections have been identified for other Sea Peoples, such as the Tjeker and the Lukka, Eberhard Zangger puts together an Anatolian hypothesis.[109]. The campaign of Year 12 is attested by the Südstele found on the south side of the temple. The one sentence answer is "we don't have a clue". S. Sherratt, Drews, etc.) As they migrated back and forth between Egypt and Canaan they transported the Yaw cult to Canaan. Artifacts of the Philistine culture are found at numerous sites, in particular in the excavations of the five main cities of the Philistines: the Pentapolis of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza. "[130], Such a comprehensive movement is associated with more than one people or culture; instead, it was a "disturbance", according to Finley:[131]. Tablet RS 18.38 from Ugarit also mentions grain to the Hittites, suggesting a long period of famine, connected further, in the full theory, to drought. Who was the last pharaoh to rule Egypt before it fell to Roman conquest? Egypt was invaded by the Hyksos people around 1786 BC. Another stele usually cited in conjunction with this one is the "Aswan Stele" (there were other stelae at Aswan), which mentions the king's operations to defeat a number of peoples including those of the "Great Green (the Egyptian name for the Mediterranean)". They camped in Amor and sent a fleet to the Nile. On the right hand side of the Pylon is the "Great Inscription on the Second Pylon", which includes the following text: "The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands, All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. [121], There is no definitive archaeological evidence. What group regularly invaded but did not conquer Egypt during the New Kingdom? [64][65] The "Athribis stela" is a granite stela found in Athribis and inscribed on both sides, which, like the Cairo column was first published by Maspero, two years later in 1883. Some archeologists believe that the Sherden are identifiable with the Sardinians from the Nuragic era. Prior to the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (from the 15th century BCE), names of Semitic-speaking, cattle-raising pastoral nomads of the Levant appear, replacing previous Egyptian concern with the Hurrianised 'prw ('Apiru or Habiru). were burned, and they did evil things in my country. On the merit stele of Merneptah, there is also a description of the ethnic composition of sea peoples. The years of this long-lived pharaoh's reign are not known exactly, but they must have comprised nearly all of the first half of the 13th century BCE[56]. The Sea Peoples are a purported seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions of the East Mediterranean prior to and during the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BCE). [120], The Nuragic bronze statuettes, a great collection of Nuragic sculptures, includes a great number of horned helmet warriors wearing a similar skirt to the Sherdens' and a round shield; although they had been dated for a long time to the 10th or 9th century BCE, recent discoveries suggest that their production started around the 13th century BCE. Contemporary Assyrian records refer to them as Ahhlamu or Wanderers. A number of hypotheses concerning the origins, identities and motives of the Sea Peoples described in the records have been formulated. The last king of Ugarit was Ammurapi (c. 1191–1182 BCE), who, throughout this correspondence, is quite a young man. The earliest pirates in human history were born in the Mediterranean during the classical age. Also found in Breasted, 1906, volume 4, p. 37, §64, This passage in the papyrus is often cited as evidence that the Egyptians settled the, Bernard Bruyère, Mert Seger à Deir el Médineh, 1929, pages 32–37, Redford, P. 292. Giovanni Ugas believes that the Sherden originated in Sardinia. 5, p. 105, sets the Battle of Perire at April 15, 1220. [citation needed], The major event of the reign of the Pharaoh Merneptah (1213 BCE – 1203 BCE),[61] 4th king of the 19th Dynasty was his battle against a confederacy termed "the Nine Bows" at Perire in the western delta in the 5th and 6th years of his reign. This theory suggests that the Sea Peoples were populations from the city-states of the Greek Mycenaean civilization, who destroyed each other in a disastrous series of conflicts lasting several decades. The movements of the hypothetical Dorian Invasion, the attacks of the Sea Peoples, the formation of Philistine kingdoms in the Levant and the fall of the Hittite Empire were associated and compressed by Finley into the 1200 BCE window. are in the Land of Hatti, and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka? 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