#himyarite

Exceptional Reverses of owl on Athena’s tetradrachm / Drachm from Greek ( 475-465 BC) to Egypt/ #Palestine (Gaza) to Yemen ( #Himyarite -30 BC and 14 AD) to south Arabia with Musnad script and to Turkish city #Troas with Script (ΣIΓE) Translation: Sigeion - Troas ( Turkey) between 375 BC - 325 BC.

The Anthropological Masterlist is HERE.

The Arabian Peninsula, or Arabia, is a West Asian peninsula that includes Yemen, Iraq, and Jordan.

ASSYRIA ─ “The Assyrian people are a Middle Eastern people. They are native to Assyria.” ─ Assyrian Information ─ Assyrian Culture ─ Assyrian History

HIMYARITE ─ “The Himyarite Kingdom, or Himyar, was an Arabian civilization that lived from 110 B.C.E. to 570 C.E. They lived in the southern highlands of Yemen.” ─ Ancient Yemen

MEDIEVAL ISLAM ─ “Medieval Islam, or the Islamic Golden Age, is an Islamic period of time that dates from the 8th century C.E. to the 14th century C.E.” ─ The Islamic Golden Age ─ Technology in Medieval Islam ─ Islamic Philosophy

MOAB ─ “The Kingdom of Moab was a Levantine civilization that lived from the 13th century B.C.E. to the 4th century B.C.E. They lived in modern-day Jordan.” ─ Moab Information ─ Moab History

NABATAEA ─ “The Nabataeans, or Nabateans, were an Arab people that lived from 169 B.C.E. to 106 C.E. They lived in northern Arabia and the southern Levant.” ─ Nabataean Information ─ Nabataean History

NURISTAN ─ “The Nuristani people are a Middle Eastern people. They are native to the Nuristan Province in Afghanistan.” ─ Nuristani Information ─ Nuristani Information

SABA’ ─ “The Sabeans, or the Kingdom of Saba’, were a South Arabian people that lived from the Iron Age to Antiquity, from 1200 B.C.E. to 270 C.E. They lived in modern-day Yemen.” ─ Sabean Culture ─ Pre-Islamic Yemeni Culture

Here are the main protagonist and antagonist from my newest short story, which I have titled The Scorpions of the Sea. It’s a high-seas adventure set in the Red Sea around 100 AD.

Nensela, Admiral of Kush

She's on a personal mission to hunt down the Arabian pirates who took away her brother Akhraten when she was a girl. However, she is in for a nasty surprise when she discovers what truly happened to him. Those ivory pieces hanging from her necklace are fly medals, which in the ancient Egyptian and Kushite cultures were awarded to warriors for demonstrating martial bravery.

Yasmina bint Faruq, Mistress of the Scorpions of the Sea

Arabia, Himyarites, AR quinarius (?), (1.75g) mid 1st - mid 2nd century AD, Male head right / Small male head right. 

We start our series on coins and marginalized populations with a coin from southwestern Arabia, from the Kingdom of the Himyarites. This coin shows two male heads, the obverse probably of a king of unknown name, and the reverse bears a legend in the Himyaritic language, a semitic language, but one which did not share a root with its local neighboring languages, Old Arabian and its relatives. 

The kingdom held the southwestern tip of Arabia, part of modern Yemen for over 600 years. The kingdom was initially pagan, with coins showing the face of a goddess identified as Athena, and there is known to have been a great deal of worship of a solar goddess Shams. Later, the kingdom converted to Judaism, and was ruled by a Jewish monarchy before being conquered by the Aksumite kingdom and converting to Christianity. Like the Aksumites, the Himyarites seem to have been an ethnically mixed and diverse kingdom. Some images, like this coin, seem to depict someone of African ancestry, with locked hair, while other images favor Sassanian Persian imagery, as this later 3rd-4th century bust of a Himyarite king. They also depicted themselves as fierce warriors, reflecting their conquests of neighboring kingdoms and their supremacy in the region for centuries.