property · prop_sea_peoples
Sea Peoples
A modern umbrella label for several named groups appearing mainly in Egyptian records around the end of the Late Bronze Age; it does not denote one securely established ethnicity, state, or unified population.
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.
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Research description
A modern umbrella label for several named groups appearing mainly in Egyptian records around the end of the Late Bronze Age; it does not denote one securely established ethnicity, state, or unified population.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Modern Scholarly Umbrella
A modern category grouping distinct ancient names or phenomena for comparative convenience.
Why does this record have this property?
The Sea Peoples label is a modern scholarly umbrella for several ancient names rather than a demonstrated single ethnicity or polity.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports property definition
The Philistines and Other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology (2013)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Sea Peoples.
- supports · supports property definition
Mercenaries or Refugees? The Evidence from the Inscriptions of Merenptah on the ‘Sea Peoples’ — Konstantinos Kopanias (2017)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Sea Peoples.
- supports · supports property definition
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC — Colleen Manassa (2003)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Sea Peoples.
- supports · supports property definition
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Sea Peoples.