entity · people_tjemehu
Tjemehu
Also known as: Tjemeh, Tjemhu
An Egyptian western population or geographic label whose meaning and spatial extent changed over time.
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.
1600 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
New perspectives on distant horizons: aspects of Egyptian imperial administration in Marmarica in the Late Bronze Age — Snape, Steven (2003)Attests the term in the fortress’s western-frontier setting.
Locator: pp. 1–8, fortress inscriptions and discussion of ‘Tjemeh-Land’ - informs · contextualizes
Marmaric wares: New Kingdom and later examples — Hulin, Linda (2001)Provides local archaeological material that cannot be equated automatically with the textual label.
Locator: pp. 67–78
Research description
The term is preserved as an Egyptian textual category. Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham’s inscriptional placement in ‘Tjemeh-Land’ is important local evidence, but it is not converted into a polygon because the expression may be geographic, ideological, administrative, or population-related rather than a surveyed territory.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
New perspectives on distant horizons: aspects of Egyptian imperial administration in Marmarica in the Late Bronze Age — Snape, Steven (2003)Attests the term in the fortress’s western-frontier setting.
Locator: pp. 1–8, fortress inscriptions and discussion of ‘Tjemeh-Land’ - informs · contextualizes
Marmaric wares: New Kingdom and later examples — Hulin, Linda (2001)Provides local archaeological material that cannot be equated automatically with the textual label.
Locator: pp. 67–78