Editing Canaan (section)

=== Later sources ===
[[Padiiset's Statue]] is the last known Egyptian reference to Canaan, a small statuette labelled "Envoy of the Canaan and of [[Peleset]], Pa-di-Eset, the son of Apy". The inscription is dated to 900–850 BC, more than 300 years after the preceding known inscription.{{sfn|Drews|1998|p=49a|ps= :"In the Papyrus Harris, from the middle of the twelfth century, the late Ramesses III claims to have built for Amon a temple in 'the Canaan' of Djahi. More than three centuries later comes the next—and very last—Egyptian reference to 'Canaan' or 'the Canaan': a basalt statuette, usually assigned to the Twenty-Second Dynasty, is labeled, 'Envoy of the Canaan and of Palestine, Pa-di-Eset, the son of Apy'."}}

During the period {{circa|900–330}} BC, the dominant [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Neo-Assyrian]] and [[Achaemenid Empire]] make no mention of Canaan.{{sfn|Drews|1998|p=49b|ps= :"Although New Assyrian inscriptions frequently refer to the Levant, they make no mention of 'Canaan'. Nor do Persian and Greek sources refer to it."}}