event · evt_zawiyet_ramesside_fortress_operation
Ramesside fortress-town operation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham
A substantial Egyptian fortress-town, temple, stores, and administrative apparatus operated on the Marmarican coast during the reign of Ramesses II.
What is the evidence?
observation
A substantial Egyptian fortress-town, temple, stores, and administrative apparatus operated on the Marmarican coast during the reign of Ramesses II.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1279 BCE–1213 BCE
Precision: range
highThis assertion records the event’s preferred range without suppressing narrower samples, phase uncertainty, or competing chronology noted elsewhere in the record.
- informs · dates
New perspectives on distant horizons: aspects of Egyptian imperial administration in Marmarica in the Late Bronze Age — Snape, Steven (2003)Establishes the Ramesside institutional occupation and western setting.
Locator: pp. 1–8; fortress-town and short-lived administration
Interpretation and caveats
The installation represents a short-lived, project-specific western imperial presence rather than a permanent line border extending across Libya.
Event context
Classification
Event type: frontier fortress establishment and operation
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Egypt and western frontier, Marmarica and Cyrenaica. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Establishes the Ramesside institutional occupation and western setting. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: pp. 1–8; fortress-town and short-lived administration.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
New perspectives on distant horizons: aspects of Egyptian imperial administration in Marmarica in the Late Bronze Age — Snape, Steven (2003)Establishes the Ramesside institutional occupation and western setting.
Locator: pp. 1–8; fortress-town and short-lived administration
Referenced records
- Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham · entity