Zoskāles
Solomon Gebreyes
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Names
birth: Ζωσκάλης↗ normalized: Zoskāles↗ alt: ዘሐቅሌ↗ normalized: Zaḥaqǝle↗ alt: ዘሐቅሊ↗ normalized: Zaḥaqǝli↗
Period of Activity
He was an ancient king in the Horn of Africa whose rule extend to the shore of the Red Sea↗ towards the middle of the first century. He is mentioned in the Greek Periplus of the Eritrean Sea as the ruler of the port of ʾAdulis↗ . Zoskales appears to have been an important supplier of ivory, tortoise shell, and rhinoceros horn, mostly from the interior regions to Egypt↗ and Roman Empire↗ . His kingdom provided a market for various imports, among them clothing, glass, brass, copper, iron, as well as axes, adzes, knives, drinking vessels, Roman money, wine and olive oil.
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Names
- birth: Ζωσκάλης grc
- alt: ዘሐቅሌ gez
- alt: ዘሐቅሊ gez
Dates
Period of activity: 1–100
Occupation
king
Faith
Aksumite
Nationality
Aksumite
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Fiaccadori, G. 2014. ‘Zoskales’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 196a–197b.
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Bowersock, G. W. 2013. The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam, Emblems of Antiquity (Oxford–New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻZoskālesʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 4.9.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS10746Zoskale [Accessed: 2024-04-26+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 4.9.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor