Dmt

For the medieval kingdom located in Ethiopia, see polities during the rst century BC, the Aksumite KingDamot.
dom. The ancestor of medieval and modern Eritrea and
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2 Name
Dmt (South Arabian alphabet:
; Unvocalized
Ge'ez: , DMT theoretically vocalized as
Daamat [2] or Damat[3] ) was a kingdom located
in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia that existed during the
10th to 5th centuries BC. Few inscriptions by or about
this kingdom survive and very little archaeological work
has taken place. As a result, it is not known whether
Dmt 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 1st century.[4]

Due to the similarity of the name of Dmt and Damot

when transcribed into Latin characters, these two kingdoms are often confused or conated with one another,
but there is no evidence of any relationship to Damot, a
kingdom far to the south. Daamat in Arabic translates as 'supported' or 'columned', and may refer to the
columns and obelisks (or Hawulti) of Matara or Qohaito.

3 Known rulers
The following is a list of four known rulers of Dmt, in
chronological order:[6]

History

Given the presence of a large temple complex and fertile

surroundings, the capital of Dmt may have been present
day Yeha, in Tigray, Ethiopia.[1]

4 See also
History of Eritrea

The kingdom developed irrigation schemes, used plows,

grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons.

History of Ethiopia

Some modern historians including Stuart Munro-Hay,

Rodolfo Fattovich, Ayele Bekerie, Cain Felder, and
Ephraim Isaac consider this civilization to be indigenous,
although Sabaean-inuenced due to the latters dominance of the Red Sea, while others like Joseph Michels,
Henri de Contenson, Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria, and Stanley Burstein have viewed Dmt as the result of a mixture of Sabaeans and indigenous peoples.[5][6] The most
recent research, however, shows that Ge'ez, the ancient
Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia
in ancient times, is not derived from Sabaean.[7] There is
evidence of a Semitic-speaking presence in Eritrea and
northern Ethiopia at least as early as 2000 BC.[6][8] It is
now believed that Sabaean inuence 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 Dmt or some other proto-Aksumite
state.[9][10]

Kingdom of Aksum
Ethiopian Empire
Land of Punt

5 References
[1] Shaw, Thurstan (1995), The Archaeology of Africa: Food,
Metals and Towns, Routledge, p. 612, ISBN 978-0-41511585-8
[2] L'Arabie prislamique et son environnement historique
et culturel: actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 24-27 juin
1987; page 264
[3] Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C; page 174
[4] Uhlig, Siegbert (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. p. 185.

After the fall of Dmt in the 5th century BC, the plateau
came to be dominated by smaller unknown successor
kingdoms. This lasted until the rise of one of these

[5] Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late

Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991, p. 57.

[6] Nadia Durrani, The Tihamah Coastal Plain of South-West

Arabia in its Regional context c. 6000 BC - AD 600 (Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 4) . Oxford:
Archaeopress, 2005, p. 121.
[7] Kitchen, Andrew, Christopher Ehret, et al. 2009.
Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages
identies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the
Near East. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 no. 1665 (June 22)
[8] Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert. Encyclopaedia
Aethiopica, Ge'ez. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,
2005, pp. 732.
[9] Munro-Hay, Aksum, p. 57.
[10] Phillipson. "The First Millennium BC in the Highlands of
Northern Ethiopia and SouthCentral Eritrea: A Reassessment of Cultural and Political Development. African Archaeological Review (2009) 26:257274
[11] Pankhurst, Richard K.P. Addis Tribune, "Lets Look
Across the Red Sea I", January 17, 2003 (archive.org mirror copy)

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