property · PROP-SEA-PEOPLES
Sea Peoples
A modern collective label for several differently named groups recorded mainly in Egyptian texts around the end of the Late Bronze Age.
Review and provenance
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Research description
The label does not establish one ethnicity, homeland, state, or unified migration. Membership varies by source. It is best modeled as a source-dependent scholarly grouping.
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines and explains historiography
Who are the Sea Peoples and what role did they play in the devastation of civilizations that occurred shortly after 1200 BCE? — Eric H. Cline (2016)
Locator: discussion of Maspero and the Merneptah/Ramesses III lists - informs · provides primary source record
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)
Locator: Ramesses III historical reliefs and inscriptions