D'mt dynasty
For the medieval kingdom located in Ethiopia, see Damot.
Dʿmt (ESA:.... ) (with various spellings, eg Diamat, Damot and Diʿamat) was a kingdom located in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia that existed during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom exist, as very little archaeological work has taken place. As a result, it is not known whether Dʿmt ended as a civilization before Aksum's early stages, evolved into the Aksumite state, or was one of the smaller states united in the Aksumite kingdom possibly around the beginning of the Common Era.[1]
History
The capital of D'mt is thought to have been Yeha, although some archeologists like Peter Schmidt believe the site is insufficient to qualify as a capital site. He states, "It may have been a major ritual center and, without question, was an important necropolis. But certainly not a capital."
The kingdom developed irrigation schemes, used plows, grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons.
Some modern historians like Stuart Munro-Hay, Rodolfo Fattovich, Ayele Bekerie, Cain Felder, and Ephraim Isaac consider this civilization to be indigenous, although Sabaean-influenced due to the latter's dominance of the Red Sea, while others like Joseph Michels, Henri de Contenson, Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria, and Stanley Burstein view Dʿmt as the result of a mixture of Sabaeans and indigenous peoples.[2][3] The most recent research, however, shows that Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea in ancient times, is not derived from Sabaean.[4] There is evidence of a Semitic-speaking presence in Ethiopia and Eritrea at least as early as 2000 BC.[3][5] It continues to be debated whether Sabaean influence was minor, limited to a few localities, and disappeared after a few decades or a century, perhaps representing a trading or military colony in some sort of symbiosis or military alliance with the civilization of Dʿmt or some other proto-Aksumite state.[6]
After the fall of Dʿmt in the 5th century BC, the plateau came to be dominated by smaller successor kingdoms. This lasted until the rise of one of these kingdoms during the first century, the Aksumite Kingdom, the ancestor of medieval and modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, which was able to reunite the area.[7]
Known rulers List of four known rulers in chronological order[3]
Dʿmt (ESA:.... ) (with various spellings, eg Diamat, Damot and Diʿamat) was a kingdom located in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia that existed during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom exist, as very little archaeological work has taken place. As a result, it is not known whether Dʿmt ended as a civilization before Aksum's early stages, evolved into the Aksumite state, or was one of the smaller states united in the Aksumite kingdom possibly around the beginning of the Common Era.[1]
History
The capital of D'mt is thought to have been Yeha, although some archeologists like Peter Schmidt believe the site is insufficient to qualify as a capital site. He states, "It may have been a major ritual center and, without question, was an important necropolis. But certainly not a capital."
The kingdom developed irrigation schemes, used plows, grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons.
Some modern historians like Stuart Munro-Hay, Rodolfo Fattovich, Ayele Bekerie, Cain Felder, and Ephraim Isaac consider this civilization to be indigenous, although Sabaean-influenced due to the latter's dominance of the Red Sea, while others like Joseph Michels, Henri de Contenson, Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria, and Stanley Burstein view Dʿmt as the result of a mixture of Sabaeans and indigenous peoples.[2][3] The most recent research, however, shows that Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea in ancient times, is not derived from Sabaean.[4] There is evidence of a Semitic-speaking presence in Ethiopia and Eritrea at least as early as 2000 BC.[3][5] It continues to be debated whether Sabaean influence was minor, limited to a few localities, and disappeared after a few decades or a century, perhaps representing a trading or military colony in some sort of symbiosis or military alliance with the civilization of Dʿmt or some other proto-Aksumite state.[6]
After the fall of Dʿmt in the 5th century BC, the plateau came to be dominated by smaller successor kingdoms. This lasted until the rise of one of these kingdoms during the first century, the Aksumite Kingdom, the ancestor of medieval and modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, which was able to reunite the area.[7]
Known rulers List of four known rulers in chronological order[3]
Dates from ca. 700 BC to ca. 650 BC
Mlkn Wʿrn Ḥywt - (Queen:ʿArky(t)n)
contemporary of the Sabaean mukarrib Karib'il Watar.
Mkrb, Mlkn - (Queen :RdʿmSmʿt)
Fai clic qui per modificare.
Mkrb, Mlkn Ṣrʿn - (Queen: RbḥYrʿt)
Son of Wʿrn Ḥywt, "King Ṣrʿn of the tribe YGʿḎ [=Agʿazi, cognate to Ge'ez], mkrb of DʿMT and SB'"
Mkrb, Mlkn Ṣrʿn - (Queen: LmnʿAdt)
Son of Rbḥ, contemporary of the Sabaean mukarrib Sumuhu'alay, "King Ṣrʿn of the tribe YGʿḎ, mkrb of DʿMT and SB'"
Sabaeans?
Fai clic qui per modificare.