page_title: Timeline of the name "Palestine"
section_title: Egyptian period
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the name "Palestine" / Historical references / Ancient period / Egyptian period
caption_attribution_description: English: Wall relief of philistines captives, mortuary temple of Ramses III (-1186 /-1154), Medinet Habu, Theban Necropolis, Egypt Français&#160;: Bas-relief de prisonniers philistins sur la façade sud du deuxième pylône, temple mortuaire de Ramsès III (-1186 à -1154), Médinet Habou, nécropole thébaine, Égypte
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  The term "Peleset" is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people or land starting from circa 1150 BC during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. The first known mention is at the temple at Medinet Habu which refers to the Peleset among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign, and the last known is 300 years later on Padiiset's Statue. The Assyrians called the same region "Palashtu/Palastu" or "Pilistu," beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BC through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later. Neither the Egyptian nor the Assyrian sources provided clear regional boundaries for the term.
  The first appearance of the term "Palestine" was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece when Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" between Phoenicia and Egypt in The Histories. Herodotus applied the term to both the coastal and the inland regions such as the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley.
context_section_description: c. 1150 BC: Medinet Habu (temple): records a people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset) among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign.
  c. 1150 BC: Papyrus Harris I: "I extended all the boundaries of Egypt; I overthrew those who invaded them from their lands. I slew the Denyen in their isles, the Thekel and the Peleset (Pw-r-s-ty) were made ashes."
  c. 1150 BC: Rhetorical Stela to Ramesses III, Chapel C, Deir el-Medina.
  c. 1000 BC: Onomasticon of Amenope: "Sherden, Tjekker, Peleset, Khurma."
  c. 900 BC: Padiiset's Statue, inscription: "envoy – Canaan – Peleset."
caption: A people called the P-r-s-t (conventionally Peleset). From a graphic wall relief on the Second Pylon at Medinet Habu, c. 1150 BC, during the reign of Ramesses III.
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