Kaminahu

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Kaminahu ( altsüdarabisch kmnhw and today Kamna ) is the name of a South Arabian city in the northern Jawf in Yemen today, 107 km north- northeast of Sana'a, at about 1100 m above sea level

In the early days Kaminahu was just like the other cities of the Jawf as Haram and Naschan its own city-state. To 715 BC Kaminahu of Yitha'amar watar was I. subject of Sheba after Naschan and the neighboring city of Manhiyat had annexed. In Karib'il of watar I (c. 685 BC) led war against Sabas Naschan and probably also against Ausan supported Ilsama ʿ of Kaminahu together with Yadhmurmalik of Haram Sabaeans; reward Kaminahu was assigned to a conquered irrigation canal of Naschan. At this time Kaminahu seems to have experienced its heyday, because Ilsama ʿ called on many inscriptions. In addition, report building inscriptions that Ilsama ʿ Nabat have built Kaminahu of the city's fortifications from Naschq. The various dedicatory inscriptions from this period suggest that were worshiped in Kaminahu next Athtar Hagar, a special form of the god Athtar, even the local gods Nab ʿ al and Mdhww. With the establishment of the kingdom of Ma'in in the 6th century BC Kaminahu lost its meaning.

Kings of Kaminahu

The sequence and dating of most kings is unclear.

  • ' Ammyitha ʿ ʿ and Ammschafiq ( belonging to Kaminahu uncertain)
  • Muhaqim and Ilsama ʿ
  • Ilsama ʿ, probably identical with the Koregenten of Muhaqim
  • Nabat ʿ ali ( Amir ) son of ʿ Ilsama, ally of Karib'il watar I (c. 685 BC)
  • Ḏmrkrb Rym, son of ʿ Ilsama
  • S [ ... ] (possibly Sumhuyafa )
  • Ilsama ʿ Nabat
  • Wahbu, son of Mas'ud
  • Ilsama ʿ Ḏrḥn
Haram (Yemen) Kingdom of Awsan Hermann von Wissmann (geographer)
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