BM 10245
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Summary
Date: c. 1213-1203 BCE
An Egyptian hieratic papyrus from the reign of Merneptah (ca. 1213-1203 BCE) containing administrative correspondence on a variety of subjects. Lines 54-56 record permission granted by Egyptian officials for tribes of the “Shasu of Edom” to bring their herds west into Egyptian-controlled pasturage near the eastern Delta. The text confirms that Egyptian scribes associated the Shasu, the mobile pastoralist population of the southern Levant, with the territory later known to the Hebrew Bible as Edom.
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