entity · people_danuna_denyen
Danuna / Denyen
Also known as: Denyen, Danuna
Source-specific eastern Mediterranean labels sometimes connected to Cilicia, Adana, or other populations; identification remains disputed.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–1100 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)Attests Denyen in Ramesses III's source.
Locator: Year 8 inscriptional list - informs · contextualizes
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations — Eric H. Cline (2024)Provides cautious wider context.
Locator: chapters on post-collapse peoples
Research description
Source-specific eastern Mediterranean labels sometimes connected to Cilicia, Adana, or other populations; identification remains disputed. The record preserves the distinction between source label, archaeological pattern, political formation, and later identity.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Ancient external designation
A name applied by an outside ancient source to a group, place, or polity.
Why does this record have this property?
Denyen/Danuna is preserved through external textual labels whose equivalences are disputed.
- Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III
provides primary evidence · Year 8 group list
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)Attests Denyen in Ramesses III's source.
Locator: Year 8 inscriptional list - informs · contextualizes
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations — Eric H. Cline (2024)Provides cautious wider context.
Locator: chapters on post-collapse peoples