Yitha'amar Watar I.

Yitha'amar Watar I. bin Yakrubmalik ( Sabaean Yṯʿʾmr Wtr bn Ykrbmlk ) was a Mukarrib of the old South Arabian Empire of Saba in today's Yemen . Norbert Nebes classifies him shortly before Karib'il Watar I (around 685 BC) and therefore identifies him with the Sabaean ruler It ( amar (or similar), who lived in 715 BC. According to an Assyrian text , brought tribute to the Neo-Assyrian ruler Sargon II .

The main source of the regency Yitha'amar Watars represents a monumental inscription , which fall in 2005 during excavations of the Archaeological German Institute in the center of Almaqah TEMPLE of Sirwah was against the deeds report Karib'il Watars discovered I.. In it, Yith'amar reports on his wars and the acquisition of various places and properties. First, Yitha'amar Watar defeated the Walad 'Amm , the "sons of the god Amm ", the Qatabans . Via the city of Timna , Yitha'amar traversed the areas of Radman , Ru'ayn and Yahir in the southwest of Qataban and then the southeast adjoining Wusr, the center of the Ausan empire . Then Yitha'amar liberated the cities of Naschān and Manhiyat in Jauf north of Saba, which were occupied by the city-state of Kaminahu , and conquered Kaminahu himself. The campaign in Jauf is also mentioned on the dedication of a bronze altar donated by Yitha'amar in Naschan. Lists of kings in private inscriptions suggest that Yitha'amars successor Dhamar'ali I was.

literature

• I. Gajda: II. Les inscriptions. In: A. Cauhet, I. Gajda: Deux autels en bronze provenant d'Arabie méridionale, suivi d'un appendice de F. Demange. In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2003, pp. 1219-1242
• Norbert Nebes: Itaʾamar the Sabaeans: To date the monumental inscription of Yiṯaʿʾamar Watar from Ṣirwāḥ. In: Arabian archeology and epigraphy . Copenhagen 2007, 18 (2007), pp. 25-33.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sumuhu'ali Yanuf I.	Mukrib of Saba approx. 685 BC Chr.	Dhamar'ali I.