Sembrouthes
| Sembroutheios | |
|---|---|
 | |
| King of Aksum | |
| Reign | c.240-260 |
| Predecessor | ʽDBH |
| Successor | DTWNS |
Sembrouthes was a King of the
Hamasien in modern-day Eritrea, which is dated to his 24th regnal year. Sembrouthes was the first known ruler in the lands later ruled by the Emperor of Ethiopia to adopt the title "King of Kings".[1] He is a probable candidate for the king who erected the Monumentum Adulitanum.[2]
His inscription reads as:
"King of kings of Aksum, great Sembrouthes came (and) dedicated (this inscription) in the year 24 of Sembrouthes the Great King" [3]
In his 1978 doctorate thesis,
Himyar, although this is highly unlikely, and as the author of the Monumentum Adulitanum.[1] The latter is an inscription at Adulis that Cosmas Indicopleustes made a copy of for king Kaleb of Axum.[4]
Discussing the evidence provided in the inscription and the absence of any coins issued with his name of them, Munro-Hay concludes that Sembrouthes "finds better into the earlier part of the Aksumite royal sequence.Ella Amida.[7]
Notes
- ^ a b Munro-Hay, "The Chronology of Aksum: A Reappraisal of the History and Development of the Aksumite State from Numismatic and Archeological Evidence" (University of London, 1978), p. 185
- ISBN 978-0-19-933367-7.
- ^ "The Inscriptions" (PDF).
- ^ Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 80
- ^ Munro-Hay, "The Chronology", p. 187
- ^ Munro-Hay, Aksum, p. 73
- ^ As cited in Munro-Hay, Excavations at Axum (London: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989), p. 22
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