- GRMT
GRMT (vocalized as Gärma [t] for convenience, possibly Gärima; flourished 3rd century, possibly AD 230-40) was the son of the
Ethiopia n Aksumite King `DBH (possibly vocalized as `Azba or `Azeba), described inSouth Arabia n texts as the "son of the "nagashi" ("wld ngšyn").Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, "Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha". Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. pp.894.] Like his predecessor BYGT, also called the "son of the "najashi" (underGDRT , `DBH's predecessor), it is not known whether the title meant that they were crown princes or simply generals. [Munro-Hay, Stuart. "Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity" (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), pp. 66] Early in his father's reign, the wars that had flared up in South Arabia during GDRT's reign were rekindled.Shamir Yuhahmid ofDhu-Raydan andHimyar requested `DBH's help after having lost some power to two allied pretenders to the throne ofSaba' and Dhu-Raydan.`DBH sent GRMT to South Arabia, where two Epigraphic South Arabian inscriptions mention his actions. He was involved in fighting using both Aksumite andTihama tribes (conquered under GDRT) on the side of Shamir, but was eventually defeated by the Sabaean king `LŠRH YḤḌB. Aksumite control in parts of westernYemen and southernSaudi Arabia does not seem to have ended however, as GRMT continued war activities aroundNajran .Name
Like BYGT and GDRT (the latter of whom appears as GDR in Aksumite inscriptions), the final T on GRMT could possibly be peculiar to South Arabian form. Though the vocalization of his name is still uncertain, it is connected to the Ge'ez root "g-r-m". The root "g-r-m" has a few related meanings, such as "terror" (gərämt), "majesty" (gərma), and to be "admirable," "become formidable," or "be frightful" (gärämä), as well as a number of other related and similar meanings. "
Gärima ," the name of one of theNine Saints who came toEthiopia in the 5th-6th centuries AD, is a very possible vocalization for GRMT, as it is relatively close to GRMT's time period.See also
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Kingdom of Aksum
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