entity · place_wilusa
Wilusa
An ancient place name whose geographic identification is modeled as a confidence-rated relationship.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Possible Trojan War Association
A proposed relationship between archaeological or textual evidence and the later Trojan War tradition.
Why does this record have this property?
The proposed Wilusa–Ilios identification places a Hittite-era western Anatolian polity within the historical background considered for Trojan tradition.
- The Ahhiyawa Texts
supports assignment
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
The Ahhiyawa Texts — Gary Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H. Cline (2011)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Wilusa.
Referenced records
- Western Anatolia · entity