ABSTRACT

The Peleset are listed amongst the *Sea-peoples in the Egyptian records of the battles that were fought by *Ramesses III. They have been tentatively identified as those who immigrated, probably in two or three stages, into Palestine and became the Philistines. In the Egyptian scenes they are shown as clean-shaven and they wear a panelled kilt, decorated with tassels, and, as a chest protector, either a ribbed corselet or they are bandaged with horizontal strips of linen; on the head, they have a circle made of either upright reeds or leather strips. Their weapons include spears and sometimes a rapier sword and a circular shield.