entity · toponym_punt
Punt
Egyptian textual and iconographic toponym associated with expeditions and valued commodities.
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.
2000 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides primary evidence
Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their Structure and Function — Filip Taterka (2019)Provides critical interpretation of the best-known New Kingdom depiction.
Locator: pp. 189–203; relief cycle and ritual function - informs · supports distribution
Mummified Baboons Reveal the Far Reach of Early Egyptian Mariners — Nathaniel J. Dominy, Salima Ikram, Gillian L. Moritz, Patrick V. Wheatley, John N. Christensen, Jonathan W. Chipman, Paul L. Koch (2020)Constrains one imported animal source without fixing Punt.
Locator: Results and broad source-zone map - informs · contextualizes
Mersa/Wadi Gawasis and Ancient Egyptian Maritime Trade in the Red Sea — Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich (2015)Provides earlier maritime evidence relevant to Punt routes.
Locator: pp. 4–11; expedition harbour and southern imports
Research description
Punt is modeled as a changing set of geographical and network hypotheses rather than a confidently bounded state. Egyptian evidence, commodities, broad source zones and later identifications are stored separately.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Network, not bounded state
Marks a toponym or interaction model that should not be displayed as a fixed political polygon.
Why does this record have this property?
Egyptian texts and images establish a destination label and commodities, while source zones and routes remain broad and potentially changing.
- Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their Structure and Function
critiques interpretation · pp. 189–203 - Mummified Baboons Reveal the Far Reach of Early Egyptian Mariners
supports distribution · Results and source-zone map
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Mersa/Wadi Gawasis and Ancient Egyptian Maritime Trade in the Red Sea — Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich (2015)Provides earlier maritime evidence relevant to Punt routes.
Locator: pp. 4–11; expedition harbour and southern imports - supports · provides primary evidence
Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their Structure and Function — Filip Taterka (2019)Provides critical interpretation of the best-known New Kingdom depiction.
Locator: pp. 189–203; relief cycle and ritual function - supports · supports distribution
Mummified Baboons Reveal the Far Reach of Early Egyptian Mariners — Nathaniel J. Dominy, Salima Ikram, Gillian L. Moritz, Patrick V. Wheatley, John N. Christensen, Jonathan W. Chipman, Paul L. Koch (2020)Constrains one imported animal source without fixing Punt.
Locator: Results and broad source-zone map
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