primary_source_edition · SRC-ISAC-MEDINET-HABU-I
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III
The Epigraphic Survey · 1930
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Document and modern access
- Type
- primary_source_publication
- Publication
- University of Chicago
Records informed by this source
- claim The equation of Iron I Dor with Tjekker or Sikila populations is possible but not securely established by the material assemblage alone.Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: lowConfidence in the stated assessmentinforms · provides primary evidence · Tjekker source label
Attests the group.
- claim Sea Peoples is a modern umbrella for source-specific named groups and does not establish one ethnicity, homeland, polity, or coordinated migration.Evidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 named groups
Shows source-specific list.
- relationship Peleset — plausibly related to — Philistine communitiesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Peleset in Year 8 record
Provides source label.
- relationship Medinet Habu Year 8 inscriptions and reliefs — primary source for baseline event — Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflictsEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 plates and text
Supports relationship.
- relationship Medinet Habu Year 8 inscriptions and reliefs — attests — PelesetEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 group list
Direct attestation.
- relationship Medinet Habu Year 8 inscriptions and reliefs — attests — Danuna / DenyenEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 group list
Direct attestation.
- relationship Medinet Habu Year 8 inscriptions and reliefs — attests — Tjekker / Sikila-associated groupsEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 group list
Direct attestation.
- claim The conventional connection between Egyptian Peleset and later Philistines is plausible, but it does not prove that every Philistine community descended from one homogeneous Pel…Evidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Peleset in Year 8 lists and reliefs
Provides source label.
- entity Danuna / DenyenEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 inscriptional list
Attests Denyen in Ramesses III's source.
- date assertion Danuna / Denyen — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 inscriptional list
Attests Denyen in Ramesses III's source.
- entity Tjekker / Sikila-associated groupsEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 list and reliefs
Attests Tjekker as an Egyptian label.
- date assertion Tjekker / Sikila-associated groups — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 list and reliefs
Attests Tjekker as an Egyptian label.
- entity Mercenary and mixed service communitiesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · foreign troop and enemy representations
Shows changing roles of named groups, though within royal rhetoric.
- date assertion Mercenary and mixed service communities — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · foreign troop and enemy representations
Shows changing roles of named groups, though within royal rhetoric.
- entity Medinet Habu Year 8 inscriptions and reliefsEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · OIP 8, Year 8 plates and inscriptions
Direct monument publication.
- date assertion Medinet Habu Year 8 inscriptions and reliefs — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · OIP 8, Year 8 plates and inscriptions
Direct monument publication.
- entity Sea PeoplesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 source-specific list
Shows one changing list.
- date assertion Sea Peoples — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 source-specific list
Shows one changing list.
- property assignment Danuna / Denyen — has property — Ancient external designationEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 group list
Supports assignment.
- property assignment Tjekker / Sikila-associated groups — has property — Ancient external designationEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Year 8 list
Supports assignment.
- entity Pelesetinforms · provides primary record
- event Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflictsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary reliefs and inscriptions
- date assertion Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflicts — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary reliefs and inscriptions
- date assertion Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflicts — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary reliefs and inscriptions
- property assignment Peleset — modern scholars classify as — Sea PeoplesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary source basis
- property Sea Peoplesinforms · provides primary source record · Ramesses III historical reliefs and inscriptions
- claim Sea Peoples is best treated as a modern, source-dependent umbrella classification rather than the name of one ancient nation.Evidence confidence: very highsupports · provides primary source context