The Coming of the Greeks. Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

Appendix Two

some time, perhaps toward the end of the Late Bronze Age,
two oral traditions were fused: the one told of the wreckage
wrought by the Manda hordes on their way to India, and the
other was the melancholy tale of Naram-Sin, who in legend
(although not in fact) was the last king of Akkad, and the vic-
tim of all of the evils that the gods could devise for Mesopota-
mia.

Hethitern," 50—59, and for the reference to Umman Manda, see line 20 of
that text.

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