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2 unusual facts about terminus post quem


Ralph de Brantingham

He was succeeded by William de Mulsho, who was himself appointed on 21 February 1365, which serves as a terminus ante quem for de Brantingham's reign.

Vedas

He gives 150 BCE (PataƱjali) as a terminus ante quem for all Vedic Sanskrit literature, and 1200 BCE (the early Iron Age) as terminus post quem for the Atharvaveda.


Deir Alla

The final sanctuary was obliterated in a fierce fire; the blackened remains of an Egyptian jar bearing the cartouche of Queen Twosret gives a terminus post quem of ca 1200 BCE, a date consonant with other twelfth-century urban destruction in the Ancient Near East.


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