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Yǝḥa

Francis Anfray · Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. V, p. 42a–43b

Y. (ይሐ) is a settlement in northern Ethiopia, in the Central Zone of the Tǝgray region, ca. 17 km to the north-east of ↗ʿAdwa (and ca. 40 km from ↗Aksum). Its primary importance as an archaeo- logical site whose findings, including construc- tions, stone ↗insc

Atlas place

Yǝḥa

Early 1st millennium BCE · Central Tigray highlands

Yǝḥa is the center of the kingdom of DM`T, a civilization that existed a thousand years before the great Aksumite Empire.

Inscription

Yeha altar fragment of Wʿrn Ḥywt

RIÉ 7 · Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A) · Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia; altar now in the National Archaeological Museum, Addis Ababa

A fragmentary royal altar text, partly restored from RIÉ 1, associates Wʿrn Ḥywt with Yeha but does not name DʿMT.