entity · people_meshwesh
Meshwesh
Also known as: Ma, Meshuesh
An Egyptian external designation for western groups attested in conflict, military service, settlement, and elite titles.
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.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
Medinet Habu, Volume II: The Later Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1932)Attests Meshwesh in Ramesses III’s later Libyan war record.
Locator: OIP 9, Year 11 Libyan war reliefs and inscriptions - informs · contextualizes
The Libyan Period in Egypt: an essay in interpretation — Leahy, Anthony (1985)Reviews Meshwesh-associated titles and later political participation in Egypt.
Locator: pp. 51–65
Research description
Meshwesh is represented as a source-dependent Egyptian label rather than a mapped nation. Its attestations span changing roles, including opponents, captives, military participants, settlers, and the ancestry or titulary of some later Egyptian elites. These roles need not describe one unified population moving together.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
Medinet Habu, Volume II: The Later Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1932)Attests Meshwesh in Ramesses III’s later Libyan war record.
Locator: OIP 9, Year 11 Libyan war reliefs and inscriptions - informs · contextualizes
The Libyan Period in Egypt: an essay in interpretation — Leahy, Anthony (1985)Reviews Meshwesh-associated titles and later political participation in Egypt.
Locator: pp. 51–65