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.

Alternative assertion

728 BCE–664 BCE

Precision: range

high

Approximate activity or relevance range, not an assertion that the entity was unchanged throughout.

  • supports · defines political formation
    25th Dynasty — Jeremy Pope (2019)

    Supports the formation and its cautions.


    Locator: Political history and chronology discussion

Research description

Kushite royal state integrating Egyptian kingship with a wider Nile Valley political base. The record does not imply permanently fixed borders or uniform administration throughout its date range.

Properties and assignments

A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.

Third Intermediate Period
What does this label mean?

Modern label for overlapping political formations conventionally assigned to Dynasties 21 to 25.

Full property definition

Why does this record have this property?

The political formation falls within this modern period or dynasty classification for the stated interval. The assignment is a modern classification and does not create an ancient event or permanent territorial identity.

highStatus: supported assignment

Evidence and sources

  • supports · defines political formation
    25th Dynasty — Jeremy Pope (2019)

    Supports the formation and its cautions.


    Locator: Political history and chronology discussion

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