Sembrouthes

Sembrouthes was a king of Axum. He is known only from a single inscription in Greek that was found at Daqqui Mahari in modern Eritrea, which is dated to his 24th regnal year. He is the first known ruler in the lands later ruled by the Emperor of Ethiopia to adopt the title "King of kings".

Related Topics:
Axum - Greek - Daqqui Mahari - Eritrea - Regnal year - Emperor of Ethiopia - King of kings

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S. C. Munro-Hay places his reign in a gap between `DBH and DTWNS, or c.250.1 However, W.R.O. Hahn, in a study published in 1983, assigns Sembrouthes to the 4th century, between Aphilas and Ezanas, and identifies him with Ousanas or Ella Amida.2

Related Topics:
`DBH - DTWNS - 250 - 1 - 4th century - Aphilas - Ezanas - Ousanas - Ella Amida

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Munro-Hay also suggests that Sembrouthes may have been the ruler who erected the anonymous Monumentum Adulitanum, an inscription at Adulis that Cosmas Indicopleustes made a copy of for king Kaleb of Axum.3

Related Topics:
Adulis - Cosmas Indicopleustes - Kaleb of Axum - 3

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