entity · txt_medinet_habu_libyan_wars
Medinet Habu records of Ramesses III's Libyan wars
Also known as: First and Second Libyan War records
Royal reliefs and inscriptions presenting Ramesses III’s conflicts with Libyan forces in Years 5 and 11.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research description
The Medinet Habu program supplies contemporary royal representations of two Libyan conflicts. The surviving monumental texts distinguish regnal years and present Egyptian victories, captives, casualties, and royal ideology. They should be modeled as primary textual evidence whose historical claims require criticism rather than as transparent battlefield reports.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary text
Medinet Habu, Volume II: The Later Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1932)Facsimile publication of the relevant monumental records.
Locator: OIP 9, Later Historical Records - informs · provides primary text
Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu, Volumes I and II — William F. Edgerton, John A. Wilson (1936)Provides the classic scholarly translation keyed to OIP 8-9.
Locator: SAOC 12, translations and explanatory notes
Referenced records
- Egypt · entity