claim · claim_libyan_ethnonyms_not_fixed_territories
Libu, Meshwesh, Tjemehu, and Tehenu should be represented as source-dependent ancient labels, not as fixed ethnic territories.
Libu, Meshwesh, Tjemehu, and Tehenu should be represented as source-dependent ancient labels, not as fixed ethnic territories.
Review and provenance
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Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC — Colleen Manassa (2003)Shows one context-specific list and coalition.
Locator: Great Karnak Inscription edition and commentary - supports · supports assignment and caveat
New perspectives on distant horizons: aspects of Egyptian imperial administration in Marmarica in the Late Bronze Age — Snape, Steven (2003)Provides a local textual use without a mappable frontier.
Locator: pp. 1–8; ‘Tjemeh-Land’ discussion - supports · supports assignment and caveat
Marmaric wares: New Kingdom and later examples — Hulin, Linda (2001)Provides local archaeology that cannot be equated automatically with an ethnonym.
Locator: pp. 67–78
Contradicting sources
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