Has anyone read this paper?
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Colonies in the Horn 1st millenium BC
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I'm more focused on the first section. He claims Sabaeans set up colonies in northern Somalia.
"Evidence from the north-eastern Bari region in Puntland hints, however, at more than just trade. Here, several monumental inscriptions have been found that were part of a large temple made of ashlar masonry and identical to South Arabian shrines. The inscriptions have been dated on palaeographic grounds somewhere in between the late eighth and early seventh centuries BC. They refer to a temple dedicated to the god Akhakhatan and erected by orders of the admiral of the fleet of the kingdom of Saba’. Meaningfully, Sabaean people were behind the settlements in Ethiopia as well, as can be inferred from inscriptions, although it is worth remembering here that South Arabia was divided in different polities of which Sabah was but one. The Sabaean epigraphy of Punt-land confirms that ‘the African expeditions were a centralised enterprise, organised and managed by Sabaean rulers’ (Prioletta et al. 2021: 337). The outpost was probably not dissimilar to that of Yeha, but in this case we know unambiguously that it was indeed a state colony, i.e. an initiative promoted by a polity to occupy effectively and symbolically a foreign land."
"Although the available data are still limited, we can perhaps discern two different models: a proper colonialist one along the northern Somali sea-board, with direct intervention of the state and aimed at the extraction of resources,and a diasporic model in the northern Horn, led by élites who soon mixed with local people, while maintaining ties with their ancestral homeland."
"Evidence from the north-eastern Bari region in Puntland hints, however, at more than just trade. Here, several monumental inscriptions have been found that were part of a large temple made of ashlar masonry and identical to South Arabian shrines. The inscriptions have been dated on palaeographic grounds somewhere in between the late eighth and early seventh centuries BC. They refer to a temple dedicated to the god Akhakhatan and erected by orders of the admiral of the fleet of the kingdom of Saba’. Meaningfully, Sabaean people were behind the settlements in Ethiopia as well, as can be inferred from inscriptions, although it is worth remembering here that South Arabia was divided in different polities of which Sabah was but one. The Sabaean epigraphy of Punt-land confirms that ‘the African expeditions were a centralised enterprise, organised and managed by Sabaean rulers’ (Prioletta et al. 2021: 337). The outpost was probably not dissimilar to that of Yeha, but in this case we know unambiguously that it was indeed a state colony, i.e. an initiative promoted by a polity to occupy effectively and symbolically a foreign land."
"Although the available data are still limited, we can perhaps discern two different models: a proper colonialist one along the northern Somali sea-board, with direct intervention of the state and aimed at the extraction of resources,and a diasporic model in the northern Horn, led by élites who soon mixed with local people, while maintaining ties with their ancestral homeland."
The author is the Spanish archaeologist who was in Bosaso earlier this year. There was a thread made about him before.
Somali twitter vs Spanish archaeologist
Somali twitter is cooking him @Idilinaa @Step a side
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I will read. Though I will say I am already sceptical about Sabaen colonies when the archeology is still in its infancy and the fact we don’t have substantial genetic/linguistic evidence of this like we do with Xabashis.
Interesting and rather peculiar way to begin his study:
The Horn of Africa is widely known for its stiff and often successful resistance to Western colonialism. It is less well known that the region experienced a diversity of colonial processes that both resemble and diverge from similar processes elsewhere and in which the West played no role
Let me see what he’s saying though.
If this is true could this be the dudes who bought T haplogroup or too late?
Interesting and rather peculiar way to begin his study:
The Horn of Africa is widely known for its stiff and often successful resistance to Western colonialism. It is less well known that the region experienced a diversity of colonial processes that both resemble and diverge from similar processes elsewhere and in which the West played no role
Let me see what he’s saying though.
If this is true could this be the dudes who bought T haplogroup or too late?
It could be true Sabeans controlled the incense trade that came from our territory. The Greeks later found out it came from Somalis and dealt with us directly after.
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