property · prop_external_ancient_designation
Ancient external designation
A name applied by an outside ancient source to a group, place, or polity.
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.
Research description
An external designation records what one source called another population. It does not establish self-identification, language, ancestry, territory, or continuity into later identities.
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines
Israel in the Merneptah Stela — Michael G. Hasel (1994)Provides a worked external-ethnonym case.
Locator: Merneptah Israel and determinative discussion - informs · provides primary evidence
The El-Amarna Correspondence: A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna Based on Collations of All Extant Tablets — Anson F. Rainey (2015)Shows context-dependent external and political labels.
Locator: source-specific labels across the EA corpus