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D. (Daʿǝmat or Daʿamat, vocalization un- known) is mentioned ten times in six Sabaic pre-Aksumite royal inscriptions, to be dated approximately to the 8th–7th cent. B.C.: 1) in the royal titles “N.N., the mukarrib of D.”: cp. RIE 3:1 [mkr]b/dʿmt; RIE 9:1 m[krb
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The kingdom of D. (ዳሞት) seems to have been in existence at least as early as the 10th cent. in the region immediately south of the ↗Abbay in present-day Wällägä and western Šäwa. Its bounds are uncertain, but they may have stretched as far west as the Didessa
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DM'T - A Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incense Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia) — PDF page 10
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DM'T - A Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incense Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia) — PDF page 11
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DM'T - A Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incense Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia) — PDF page 12
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DM'T - A Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incense Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia) — PDF page 13
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DM'T - A Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incense Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia) — PDF page 14
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DM'T - A Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incense Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia) — PDF page 9
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The Kingdom of DʿMT heralded the dawn of recorded history in the northern highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Enduring for centuries, it laid the foundations for the great empires that followed it.
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A very short altar fragment preserves the title mukarrib of DʿMT; Schneider tentatively linked it to RIÉ 19.
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A better-preserved parallel to RIÉ 9 confirms and refines the reading of Rdʾm’s DʿMT formula.
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DASI calls the text conjectural and notes palaeographic difficulty in treating 5A and 5B as one inscription; the initial Dʿ of DʿMT is restored, so this is not an independent direct attestation.
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A two-line royal fragment preserves the formula ‘became king of DʿMT, its east and west’ and the deity ḏt-Bʿdn.
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Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 10
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Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 11
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Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 12
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Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 4
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Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 6
