The Historical And Cultural Heritage Of The Middle East

[Smeagol]

Julia Domnah was a Syrian Arab descended from the Arab tribe called the Emesene that founded the kingdom of Emesa in modern day Homs 2,000 years ago, Syria which they later became a vassal client kingdom to the Roman empire. She was married to Septumus Severus, who was half Punic-Berber half Italian, and their children were Caracalla and Geta. The boy emperor that you're talking about is Elagabalus which the names is derived from the ancient Syrian sun god:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesan_dynasty
His mother was a niece of Julia Domnah while his father was a Roman Syrian aristocrat.

Yeah, one of the most interesting characters in history.

[Kamal900]

Yeah, one of the most interesting characters in history.

By Ahmad al-Jallad:

Published: “the year thirst afflicted the Arabs”. This Safaitic text, accompanied by a beautiful scene of a cameleer with dreadlocks, attests the first example of the use of an ‘rb-based ethnonym in this pre-Islamic context. Hear the text read and see next tweets for translation.


Translit: le-moqīm ben yamlek ben tawfīloṣ ben zayd ḏī ʾāl ʿamarat hag-gamal wa-hā-diśar wa-llāt naqāʾat le-ḏī yoʿawwer haḫ-ḫoṭūṭa wa-ḥallala wa-ʾaḫaḏa haʾ-ʾaṣ́ayata sanata ṯ̣amʾ ʿal-ʾaʿrāb

“By Moqīm b. Yamlek b. Tawfilos b. Zayd of the lineage of ʿAmarat is this camel and O Dusares and Allāt may he who effaces this writing/drawing be thrown out (of the grave) and he camped and took possession of the watering hole the year thirst afflicted the Arabs (ʾaʿrāb).”

You can find the full article here :
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1111/aae.12157

Or on my academia page:
https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/AhmadAlJallad
https://twitter.com/Safaitic/status/1271456424376373248

You know, the funny thing is that despite that this ancient old Arabic inscription written in the Safaitic script that is 2,000 years old, I can understand 90% of it, rofl. Yeah, it's an inscription that talks about the cameleer commemorate his dead camel. and invoking the old Arab gods of Dusharas and Al-Lat against anyone who tries to tamper with the inscription in the year of drought that had inflicted the Arabs which he used the word, 2e3rab, that is still used as a term for nomadic Arabs which is used also in the Quran many centuries later.

Dusharas:



Al-Lat:


(al-lat on the left witht he spear with other semitic gods on the right like Ba-3al-Shamin):


Arab musicians from the same region as this inscription was founded in Hawran:

https://twitter.com/TaissierK/status...91458525687809

Ancient Arabs in Fayoum, Egypt, 3rd century BC:

Arab governor of Fayoum in 258 BC

A Philadelphia document (Philadelphia Arsinoites) classified (PSI V 538) dating back to 258 BC and it is a message from a group of Arab officers requesting the appointment of one of them as Epistatēs, that is, governor. In Fayoum, the Arabs had a neighborhood called the Arab District (ἀμφόδου Ἀράβων).

https://twitter.com/TaissierK/status...62669935640576

It's not surprising given that Herodotus met a group of people who called themselves Arabs in the 5th century BC somewhere in Egypt, and we did find a couple of bronze bowls that were found in an ancient altar of Al-Lat somewhere in Egypt by the ancient Qedarite Arab king written in imperial Aramaic that was used as the language of administration and the lingua france of the ancient world:

[Smeagol]

Very interesting stuff.

[Kamal900]

Very interesting stuff.

Also, dreadlocks isn't a Black invention, and many peoples in Asia including Arabs and Indians also do that as well.

[Smeagol]

Also, dreadlocks isn't a Black invention, and many peoples in Asia including Arabs and Indians also do that as well.

True, though that doesn't stop the afrocentrists from claiming they got it from Africans.

[Kamal900]

True, though that doesn't stop the afrocentrists from claiming they got it from Africans.

Yup, and it was the Indian migrants from East India that brought the hairstyle to Jamaica.

[Kamal900]

True, though that doesn't stop the afrocentrists from claiming they got it from Africans.

For my 7abibis here:

A tombstone found in Rome for a Palmyrene merchant called Habibi Nabati .. the name in Latin: HABIBI ANNUBTHI, which is evident in this name using solar lamas as it is pronounced .. This is a comparison to the use of the Arabic definition. It is an indication of the presence of written and spoken language. The operative is not different from our Arabic as it seems.


The Palmyerene Aramaic inscription at the bottom of the Latin inscription reads "7abiby Bar Malkey An-Nabat 7ubal"
https://twitter.com/TaissierK/status...30547276070912

The Arab god, 7ubal or Hubal, was worshiped in Mecca during Prophet Muhammed's time as well. In fact, the word, Allah, was a title given to the god, Hubal, which comes from the word, Al-Illah, which means "the lord".

Image of a statue belonging to an Arab priest named Abd Al-Lat(in Arabic means the slave of Al-Lat similar to the name, Abdullah, which means the slave of Allah) and his wife, Camila, in the town of Qurtuba in Mount Lebanon .. The Arabs in Mount Lebanon are mentioned in the early Greek sources such as the history of Quintus Rufus who spoke about Alexander’s revenge on the Arab peasants in Mount Lebanon in 332 BC because they supported the Phoenicians in the city of Tyre.

https://twitter.com/TaissierK/status...12896195932169

[Kamal900]

Arab veils before and after Islam.

Arab women in veils, Palmyra:


Arab women from Algeria and Lebanon:



Apollodorus of Damascus, the Nabatean Arab archetict of Rome in the 2nd century AD:

Apollodorus was born in Damascus, Syria, at a time when it was either ruled by Nabataeans, or when they had substantial presence in it, circa 50 AD. Apollodorus is said to be of Nabataean ethnic extraction himself[5], and Damascus was part of the Roman Empire during his adulthood. Little is known of his early life, but he started his career as a military engineer[6] before meeting emperor Trajan and accompanying him during the Second Dacian War in 105 AD

Fiorella Festa Farina, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Damascus, described the technical prowess of Apollodorus as stemming from his cultural roots, and that he owed his mastery to "Nabataean culture filtered through Greek modes of thought."[10] He was known for his practical and robust designs. It was likely due to his influence that domes became a standard element in Roman architecture.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodorus_of_Damascus

[Kamal900]

In 1600 BC, the most populous city in the world was Avaris, in the Nile Delta in Egypt. Most of the population of 50 - 100K were Canaanite immigrants, who'd paved the way for domination of northern Egypt by the Hyksos. Minoan frescoes reflect contacts with contemporary Crete.

https://twitter.com/TheAncientWorld/...47869518602241

Shoshenq I, king of ancient Egypt(Pharaoh) and the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt. Shoshenq came from a line of princes of Libyan tribal descent whose title was “great chief of the Meshwesh”(Berber tribe).




Beeswax cones uncovered atop the heads of two individuals buried at #Amarna between 1347 and 1332 B.C. are the first archaeological evidence of conical headpieces that were frequently depicted in #Egyptian art.


Very rare. Detail, stele showing a Syrian mercenary drinking beer with his child and wife. 18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, 1351-1334 BCE.


Armana art:








The Nubianisation of Egypt: Nubian styles became very common in New Kingdom Egypt, especially during the Amarna Period. Here Meritaten is depicted wearing a Nubian wig and an earring which finds an exact parallel on Sai Island in Sudan.

[renaissance12]

Iranians are not seen as arabic......why? Different culture..?