- name
Blemmyes with the
modern Beja term bálami "desert inhabitant, nomad",
derived from bal "desert". The
people referred to in Gr****
texts as
Blemmyes may...
-
origins of the name "
Blemmyes", and the
question is
considered unsettled. In antiquity, the
actual tribe known as the
Blemmyes were said to be named...
-
ascribed an
uncivilized nature to the
Blemmyes. Both
Pliny the
Elder and
Pomponius Mela ****ociated the
Blemmyes with
mythical figures such as
satyrs and...
- the Ku****e
resettled in Meroë. On the turn of the
fifth century the
Blemmyes established a short-lived
state in
Upper Egypt and
Lower Nubia, probably...
-
praefectus Aegypti as
their new emperor.: 23 He enjo****
successes against the
Blemmyes attacking the Thebaid, but by
August 262
Alexandria was
devastated and...
-
beings known as the
Blemmyes, who are
indeed said to have no head, and have
their facial features on the chest.
Cannibalism Blemmyes (legendary creatures)...
-
Lower Nubia and some
cities in
Upper Egypt.
Rilly (2019) states: "The
Blemmyes are
another Cu****ic
speaking tribe, or more
likely a
subdivision of the...
- year or in 300/301, he
makes agreements with the
Meroitic Nubians and the
Blemmyes. He
agrees to pay
subsidies to both peoples, and he
cedes the Dodecashoenos...
-
successfully defeated the
Blemmyes to the North, and an
inscription by
Silko at the
Temple of
Kalabsha claims to have
driven the
Blemmyes into the
Eastern Desert...
- Blemmyan,
Blemmye, Old Beja or Old
Bedauye is an
extinct Afroasiatic language of the Cu****ic
branch that was
spoken by the
Blemmyes in the
Eastern Desert...
