entity · resource_aromatics_frankincense_myrrh
Frankincense, myrrh and related aromatics
Botanical resins and aromatic commodities attested in selected texts, images and later trade systems.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides primary evidence
Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their Structure and Function — Filip Taterka (2019)Documents aromatic commodities in the Hatshepsut source.
Locator: Relief-cycle scenes and cult-product discussion - informs · contextualizes
Sabaeans on the Somali Coast — Alessia Prioletta, Christian Julien Robin, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Iwona Gajda, Khayr H. Nuʿmān (2021)Provides later endpoint context while stressing contextual limits.
Locator: Maritime and aromatic-trade discussion
Research description
The category is included only where actual textual, botanical, archaeological or residue evidence exists. No continuous 1600–800 BCE incense route is drawn from later classical descriptions.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Aromatics supported only by source-specific evidence
Marks records where frankincense, myrrh or related aromatics are included only because a specific source attests them.
Why does this record have this property?
The package does not infer a continuous incense route from later classical trade. Each occurrence remains tied to its text, image, plant remain or residue evidence.
- Sabaeans on the Somali Coast
contextualizes · Endpoint coastal contact discussion - Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their Structure and Function
provides primary evidence · Commodity scenes and cultic function
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Sabaeans on the Somali Coast — Alessia Prioletta, Christian Julien Robin, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Iwona Gajda, Khayr H. Nuʿmān (2021)Provides later endpoint context while stressing contextual limits.
Locator: Maritime and aromatic-trade discussion - supports · provides primary evidence
Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their Structure and Function — Filip Taterka (2019)Documents aromatic commodities in the Hatshepsut source.
Locator: Relief-cycle scenes and cult-product discussion
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