Kaminahu
Location | Yemen |
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Region | Al Jawf Governorate |
Coordinates | 16°10′05″N 44°41′21″E / 16.168089°N 44.689188°E |
Kaminahu (
In early times Kaminahu like other towns in al-Jawf such as Ḥaram and Nashan, was an independent city state.
In about 715 BCE Kaminahu was conquered by Yitha’amar Watar I of Saba', after which it annexed Nashan and the neighbouring town of Manhiyat.[1]
Yith'amar left a stela which reads
Yatha amar Watar son of Yakrubmalik mukarrib of Saba dedicated to Aranyada' the patron when Aranyada came back form the territories of Aranyada' and of Nashshan and avenged Nashshan at the expense of Kaminahu because Nashahn had maintained the alliance of Almaqah and of Aranyada', of Yatha amar and of Malikwaqah, of Saba of nashshan, because of ... of god and parton of pact and alliance.[2]
In the war against Nashan led by
After the founding of the Kingdom of
Kings of Kaminahu
The order and dating for most kings is unclear.[4]
- 'Ammyithaʿ and ʿAmmschafiq (affiliation to Kaminahu uncertain)
- Muhaqim and Ilsamaʿ
- Ilsamaʿ, probably identical with the coregent of Muhaqim
- Nabatʿali (Amir), son of Ilsamaʿ, ally of Karib'il Watar I. (ca. 685 BCE)
- Ḏmrkrb Rym, son of Ilsamaʿ[5]
- S[ ... (possibly Sumhuyafa)
- Ilsamaʿ Nabaṭ
- Wahbu, son of Mas'ud
- Ilsamaʿ Ḏrḥn[6]
Culture
Kaminahu, was in
References
- ^ Norbert Nebes: Itaʾamar der Sabäer: Zur Datierung der Monumentalinschrift des Yiṯaʿʾamar Watar aus Ṣirwāḥ. In: Arabian archaeology and epigraphy. Kopenhangen 2007, 18 (2007), S. 25-33.
- ^ Greg Fisher, Arabs and Empires Before Islam (Oxford University Press, 2015 ) p 102.
- ^ ISBN 3700105169
- ISBN 0-85323-359-4
- ^ Missing in Kitchen. See: S. Frantsouzoff: Once more on the interpretation of mṯl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna). Collective Volume in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies; Volume:40(2010); Pages:161-170.
- ^ Christian Robin (2002), J.F. Healey; V. Porter (eds.), Vers une meilleure connaissance de Kaminahu (Jawf du Yémen) (in German), vol. 14, Oxford, pp. 191–213
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev: Sayhadic Languages (Epigraphic South Arabian). Semitic Languages. London: Routledge, 1997. Pg. 221.