Keftian

English

Noun

Keftian (plural Keftians)

1. (Egyptology) A member of an unidentified ancient people of the Mediterranean, sometimes linked with the Minoans, known from their interactions with the Ancient Egyptians.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 15:

     We see such gold ox-heads figured both in the inventories on the clay tablets at Knossos and on the Tomb of Rekhmara, as part of the tribute brought by the Keftians, the men of the isles in the midst of the sea, to the Egypt of the early fifteenth century.