entity · people_aramean_polities
Aramean polities and communities
Also known as: Aramaeans
First-millennium Northwest Semitic-speaking communities and polities whose identities and territories varied by source and period.
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.
1200 BCE–700 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment — Avraham Biran, Joseph Naveh (1995)Attests an Aramaic royal inscription in the southern Levant.
Locator: Aramaic stele language and historical setting - informs · contextualizes
Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) — A. Kirk Grayson (1996)Provides external Assyrian attestations of Syrian polities.
Locator: western campaign inscriptions
Research description
First-millennium Northwest Semitic-speaking communities and polities whose identities and territories varied by source and period. The record preserves the distinction between source label, archaeological pattern, political formation, and later identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment — Avraham Biran, Joseph Naveh (1995)Attests an Aramaic royal inscription in the southern Levant.
Locator: Aramaic stele language and historical setting - informs · contextualizes
Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) — A. Kirk Grayson (1996)Provides external Assyrian attestations of Syrian polities.
Locator: western campaign inscriptions
Referenced records
- Aramean and Syrian connections · entity