- The
Shasu (Ancient Egyptian: šꜣsw,
possibly pronounced šaswə) were Semitic-speaking
pastoral nomads in the
Southern Levant from the late
Bronze Age to...
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Ancient Egypt in Canaan. A
place called "Seir, in the land of
Shasu" (tꜣ-šꜣsw sʿr – ta-
Shasu seʿer),
thought to be near Petra, Jordan, is
listed in the temple...
- six
groups of
Shasu are noted; the
Shasu of S'rr, the
Shasu of Rbn, the
Shasu of Sm't, the
Shasu of Wrbr, the
Shasu of Yhw, and the
Shasu of Pysps. Some...
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Phoenicians or
other ancient Semitic-speaking civilizations, such as the
Shasu on the eve of the Late
Bronze Age collapse. It
appears 34
times within 32...
- met two
Shasu nomads who told him that the
Hittite king was "in the land of Aleppo, on the
north of Tunip" 200
kilometers away, where, the
Shasu said, he...
- (in) the Land of the
Shasu" (Egyptian: 𓇌𓉔𓍯𓄿 Yhwꜣ) in an
inscription from the time of
Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE), the
Shasu being nomads from Midian...
-
refuses to
recognize Egypt's
control over
Canaan and,
together with the
Shasu of
Mount Seir,
conducted raids in Egypt.
Pharaoh sent
troops to the area...
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scholars have
speculated that "Shutu" may be a
variant of the
Egyptian term
Shasu. An
Egyptian execration text of the 17th
century BCE
refers to an "Ayyab"...
- A
carved relief showing Shasu spies being beaten by Egyptians...
-
other cir****stantial
evidence point to the
Israelites emerging from the
Shasu and
other seminomadic peoples from the
desert regions south of the Levant...
