Ancient population · Antiquity
Hellenistic (Antiquity)
Hellenistic
Hellenistic (Antiquity) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hellenistic), with 1 sample from Beni Suef, Egypt, dated to c. 50 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age), Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt) and IBA (Bronze Age, Israel); the nearest living populations are Egyptian Copt, Yemenite Dhamar and Yemenite Amran.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is U6a.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 50 BCE
- Country
- Egypt
- Origin
- Beni Suef, Egypt
- Sampled near
- Abusir-el Meleq 29.90, 31.20
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- SchuenemannKrauseNatComm2017
- Catalogue
Hellenistic_contamvariant
Nearest populations
Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian | 4.56 |
| 2 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 4.75 |
| 3 | IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA | 6.45 |
| 4 | Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA | 6.93 |
| 5 | Israel (Iron Age)Israel_IA | 7.57 |
| 6 | Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Hellenistic | 7.62 |
| 7 | Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA | 7.69 |
| 8 | Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C | 7.77 |
| 9 | Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA | 7.83 |
| 10 | Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA | 7.91 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian CoptEgyptian_Copt | 4.95 |
| 2 | Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar | 5.52 |
| 3 | Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran | 5.91 |
| 4 | Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib | 6.05 |
| 5 | Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew | 6.08 |
| 6 | Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca | 6.10 |
| 7 | Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda | 6.20 |
| 8 | Saudi BSaudiB | 6.33 |
| 9 | Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf | 6.47 |
| 10 | Yemenite IbbYemenite_Ibb | 6.62 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
JK2888 | M | 151 calBCE - 23 calCE | Abusir-el Meleq | E1b1b1a1b2a4b E-Y147228 | U6a2 |