entity · people_tjekker_sikila
Tjekker / Sikila-associated groups
Also known as: Tjekker, Sikila, Sikil
Labels in Egyptian and Levantine evidence sometimes associated with Dor, but archaeological identification is not secure.
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–1000 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)Attests Tjekker as an Egyptian label.
Locator: Year 8 list and reliefs - informs · critiques interpretation
Sea Peoples and Phoenicians along the Southern Phoenician Coast: A Reconciliation — Ayelet Gilboa (2005)Separates textual and material identifications.
Locator: Dor and Sikila/Tjekker discussion
Research description
Labels in Egyptian and Levantine evidence sometimes associated with Dor, but archaeological identification is not secure. 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?
Tjekker is an Egyptian external designation; Sikila/Dor association is a later reconstruction.
- Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III
provides primary evidence · Year 8 list - Sea Peoples and Phoenicians along the Southern Phoenician Coast: A Reconciliation
critiques interpretation · Dor identification discussion
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)Attests Tjekker as an Egyptian label.
Locator: Year 8 list and reliefs - informs · critiques interpretation
Sea Peoples and Phoenicians along the Southern Phoenician Coast: A Reconciliation — Ayelet Gilboa (2005)Separates textual and material identifications.
Locator: Dor and Sikila/Tjekker discussion
Referenced records
- Northern coast and Phoenician links · entity