Talk:Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a

It is incorrect to say "Cline doubts the change in dating by Bietak, and Bietak’s argument that the artists were Minoan. Cline says that the “Daba frescoes may simply be an indication that Hyksos artists also adopted aspects of other cultures,” and therefore believes that the artists were not Minoan."

I never said that the artists were "not Minoan;" in fact, they may well have been. However, it is also entirely possible that the paintings were done by artists of a different nationality, but with Minoan training and using Minoan techniques.

Much has changed since my article was published, including full data disclosure by Bietak. I now agree with Bietak's dating of the paintings to the time of Thutmose III (or Hatsheput); it makes more sense than dating them to the Hyksos period or even the early 18th Dynasty.

Sincerely,

Eric H. Cline