Sumuhu'ali Yanuf I. was a
Sabaean Sabean or Sabaean may refer to:
*Sabaeans, ancient people in South Arabia
**Sabaean language, Old South Arabian language
*Sabians, name of a religious group mentioned in the Quran, historically adopted by:
**Mandaeans, Gnostic sect from the marshl ...
, ruler (
Mukarrib Mukarrib (Old South Arabian: , romanized: ) is a title variously defined as "priest-kings" or "federators"; the mukarribs may have been the first rulers of the early South Arabian states. Sometime in the fourth century BCE, the title was replaced b ...
) of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Saba.
[ Walter W.
Müller (ed.) / Hermann von Wissmann: History of Saba' II. The great empire of the Sabaeans until its end in the early 4th century BC. (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class., Session Reports, Volume 402) Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, 1982 (to Sumuhu'ali Yanuf II: pp. 219-224) ] He was son of the powerful ruler
Yada'il Dharih and is known from inscriptions.
[Répertore d'Epigraphie Sémitique : 4814.]
Hermann von Wissmann Hermann von Wissmann may refer to:
* Hermann Wissmann (1853–1905), German explorer and administrator in Africa
** ''Hermann von Wissmann'' (steamship), a German steamer
** Hermann von Wissmann (ship, 1940), became in 1950 the Belgian Kamina
* He ...
gives his reign around 660 BC. while Kenneth A. Kitchen says around 470–455 BC.
Sumuhu'ali Yanuf's successor can not be determined with certainty, though he may have been succeeded by one of his brothers, Yatha' Amar Watar III.
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Date of death unknown
Mukaribs of Saba
Date of birth unknown
Sabaeans
Kings of Saba
5th century BC Yemeni People