• Mukarrib (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨, romanized: mkrb) is a title used by rulers in ancient South Arabia. It is attested as soon as continuous epigraphic...
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    century BCE to the 1st century BCE: this kingdom can be divided into the "mukarrib" period, where it reigned supreme over all of South Arabia; and the "kingly"...
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  • became part of the Himyarite Kingdom in the late 3rd century CE. The title Mukarrib (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨, romanized: mkrb) was used by the rulers of...
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    Sabaeans. During this period, the kings of Qatabān adopted the titles of mukarrib (lit. 'unifier'), used by local hegemons in South Arabia, and of malik...
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    Yatha' Amr Watar bin Yakarib Malik (d. 710 BC) was one of the ancient Mukarrib of Saba, who ruled in the last two or three decades of the eighth century...
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    was the most prominent federation. The Sabaean rulers adopted the title Mukarrib generally thought to mean unifier, or a priest-king, or the head of the...
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    the term, in the earliest Ethiopian state of D'mt the South Semitic term Mukarrib (priest king), mostly associated with the Kingdom of Sheba, was in use...
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    world. The destruction of the city in the 7th century BCE by the king and Mukarrib of Saba' Karab El Watar is a significant event in the history of South...
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  • kingdom proper, as he was responsible for changing the ruler's title from ("Mukarrib") to "king" (malik). The name Karibʾīl (𐩫𐩧𐩨𐩱𐩡, KRBʾL), variously transliterated...
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    BC to ca. 650 BC Mlkn Wʿrn Ḥywt ʿArky(t)n contemporary of the Sabaean mukarrib Karib'il Watar Mkrb, Mlkn Rdʿm Smʿt Mkrb, Mlkn Ṣrʿn Rbḥ Yrʿt Son of Wʿrn...
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  • YG'Ḏ, mukarrib of D'MT and SB' (RIE 8:1-2); lmn/mlkn/sr'n/yg/ḏyn/mkrb/d'mt/wsb'/bn/rbb 'LMN, the victorious king he of (the tribe?) YG'Ḏ, mukarrib of D'MT...
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  • Karibi-ilu was a Mukarrib of Saba' who reigned from 700 BC to 680 BC. The name Karibi-ilu in Akkadian matches "Karab-El Bayin" in Sabaean,[citation needed]...
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    of the temple's massive enclosure known as The great wall of Awwam by Mukarrib Yada`'il Dharih I in the middle of the 7th century BCE. Indicating a much...
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  • 𐩺𐩵𐩲𐩱𐩡 𐩹𐩧𐩢  ydʿʾl ḏrḥ), son of Sumuhu'ali I was a Sabaean ruler (mukarrib). His reign was placed around 660 BC by Hermann von Wissmann and around...
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    queen Šamši joined a local Egyptian kinglet of the Nile Delta and the mukarrib Yiṯaʿʾamar Watar I of Sabaʾ in offering lavish presents consisting of gold...
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    other communes, especially Amirum, formed a federation. The great Sabaean mukarrib Karib'il Watar conquered this federation in the early 7th century BC as...
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    federation. The Sabaean rulers adopted the title Mukarrib generally thought to mean "unifier". The role of the Mukarrib was to bring the various tribes under the...
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    8th to the 1st centuries BCE. Rulers referred to themselves by the title Mukarrib ("federator") as a testimony to the hegemony they exerted over neighbouring...
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    city seems to have been destroyed in the 7th century BCE by the king and mukarrib of Saba Karib'il Watar, according to a Sabaean text that reports the victory...
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    result. Another continuity between the kingdoms was the use of the title mukarrib to designate their leader, and it is not known which one borrowed it from...
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  • Sumuhu'ali Yanuf I. Mebiy was a Sabaean, ruler (Mukarrib) of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Saba. He was son of the powerful ruler Yada'il Dharih...
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  • the area and took the town. It reads Yatha amar Watar son of Yakrubmalik mukarrib of Saba dedicated to Aranyada' the patron when Aranyada came back from...
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    earliest inscription found about the gardens' massive enclosure was by Mukarrib Yada`'il Dharih I in the 7th century BCE. The enclosure is defined by a...
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  • title mlk (king), and mkrb, most often interpreted as the Sabaean title mukarrib (or possibly the honorific makrûb meaning "blessed". There is also the...
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  • alliance between Saba and Nashshan: Yatha amar Watar son of Yakrubmalik mukarrib of Saba dedicated to Aranyada' the patron when Aranyada came back from...
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  • Yith'amar left a stela which reads Yatha amar Watar son of Yakrubmalik mukarrib of Saba dedicated to Aranyada' the patron when Aranyada came back form...
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  • The ancient site derives from the building activities of the Sabaean Mukarrib Yada'il Zarih I, whose reign was placed around 660 BC by Hermann von Wissmann...
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    Dilmunite royal ideology might have influenced the position of later Sabaean mukarribs, who interceded between the ordinary inhabitants of Saba and the main...
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