Yeha

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The ruins of the Temple of Yeha
General view of the Temple of Yeha with the church next to it

Yeha ( Old Ethiopian : ይሐ Yiḥa , old South Arabic Yḥʔ ) is a village in northern Ethiopia . The place is located in an area whose soil is particularly fertile. The ruins of a temple that can be assigned to the realm of Da'amot still stand here today . Yeha may have been its capital. The temple (18.5 m × 15 m) is made of stone, is still well preserved and was secured in 2017. During excavations, the remains of a palace and a necropolis were also found. Some of the tombs may have been royal. There was an inscription by the ruler Wʿrn Ḥywt .

There is also a monastery of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church on site . Excavations have been going on intermittently since 1952.

Web links

Commons : Yeha  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Yeha  - travel guide

literature

  • Stuart Munro-Hay: State developement and urbanism in northern Ethiopia . In: The Archeology of Africa , edited by T. Shaw, P. Sinclair, B. Andah, A. Okpoko, London / New York 1993, p. 612, ISBN 0-415-11585-X

proof

  1. ↑ S. Weninger: Aethiosabaeica minora . In: Aethiopica 10 (2007), 53-54
  2. ↑ N. Nebes: The inscriptions from the ˀAlmaqah temple in ˤAddi ˁAkawəḥ . In: ZOrA 3 (2010), 223
  3. ↑ Alexandra Nyseth: Most important pre-Christian sacred building in East Africa restored , RESTAURO, May 16, 2017

Coordinates: 14 ° 15 '  N , 38 ° 55'  E