entity · pol_ammon
Ammon
Also known as: Kingdom of Ammon
Iron Age highland polity centred around Rabbath-Ammon, with early formation and borders incompletely resolved.
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.
1000 BCE–500 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
Ammon — Randall W. Younker (2014)Provides a bounded synthesis with chronology caveats.
Locator: Ammon polity evidence
Research description
Iron Age highland polity centred around Rabbath-Ammon, with early formation and borders incompletely resolved. 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.
Polity extent uncertain
A polity is historically supported but its direct-control boundary cannot be drawn precisely.
Why does this record have this property?
Early Ammonite state and boundary evidence is incomplete.
- Ammon
contextualizes · Ammon overview
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Ammon — Randall W. Younker (2014)Provides a bounded synthesis with chronology caveats.
Locator: Ammon polity evidence
Referenced records
- Ammon highlands · entity