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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercar: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercar: [QUOTE]Yom: It indicates that Sabaean presence is not as large as previously hypothesized.[/QUOTE]...having any [b]bearing on the fact of "sabean" influences[/b], how? [/QUOTE]Even from another 'strong' advocate of in situ developments of Pre-Aksumite cultural complexes in the African Horn, we have: During the first millennium BC, a state with Sabean characteristics appeared on the plateau in Tigray and Eritrea. It is archaeologically identified by the so-called pre-Aksumite culture (c. 1000/900 BC - 100 BC/AD 100). This state is recorded in the inscriptions with the name of ‘Kingdom of Da’amat’. It most likely relied on the ‘plough and cereal complex’. The ruins of a stone dam, possibly going back to this period, at Safra in the Kohaito region (central Eritrea) suggest that artificial irrigation also was practiced (Anfray 1967; Anfray 1968; Fattovich 1977a; Fattovich 1977b; Fattovich 1980; de Contenson 1981; Fattovich 1988; Anfray 1990; Fattovich 1990c). On linguistic, epigraphic and monumental evidence, the origins of this state have been usually ascribed to a south Arabian - more specifically Sabean - colonization of the plateau in the first half of the first millennuim BC (see Conti Rossini 1928; von Wissmann 1975; Ricci 1984). [b]At present[/b], it seems that the [b]kingdom originated [/b]from the [b]contacts between an indigenous chiefdom and the southern Arabians[/b], who [b]deeply affected the local cultural pattern[/b] (Drewes 1962; Anfray 1968; Schneider 1976; Fattovich 1977b; Fattovich 1980; Fattovich 1990c). - Fattovich, [i]The development of urbanism in the northern Horn of Africa in ancient and medieval times[/i], 2002. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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