entity · people_shasu
Shasu
Also known as: Šꜣsw
Egyptian external label for mobile or pastoral groups in southern Levantine and Transjordanian zones.
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.
1500 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
Yhwꜣ of Shasu-Land — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Provides philological context for Shasu and Yhwꜣ.
Locator: chapter 2; Egyptian Shasu-land lists - informs · contextualizes
Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go? — David C. Hopkins (1993)Provides archaeological caution about mobile populations.
Locator: pp. 200-211
Research description
Egyptian external label for mobile or pastoral groups in southern Levantine and Transjordanian zones. 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?
Shasu is an Egyptian outsider label applied to mobile groups and lands.
- Yhwꜣ of Shasu-Land
provides primary evidence · Egyptian Shasu-land lists
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
Yhwꜣ of Shasu-Land — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Provides philological context for Shasu and Yhwꜣ.
Locator: chapter 2; Egyptian Shasu-land lists - informs · contextualizes
Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go? — David C. Hopkins (1993)Provides archaeological caution about mobile populations.
Locator: pp. 200-211
Referenced records
- Sinai and Egyptian frontier · entity