Timeline
Ranges, not points
AttestedTransmittedReconstructionHypothesisDisputed
Ancient dates are ranges. Each bar spans its catalogue range and fades at both ends. Lanes group witnesses by language, and background bands mark the conventional Levantine archaeological periods.
Period boundaries are conventional and approximate. Bars are drawn from each record's start and end years; see the record for its dating note.
Undated textual traditions
These are transmitted texts whose composition date is debated and not encoded in the corpus. They are kept off the axis rather than given a misleading point.