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`DBH (vocalized as `Azaba or `Adhebah) was a king of Axum (c.230 - c.240). He and his son GRMT (possibly vocalized as "Girma") are known through south Arabian inscriptions that mention Shamir, king of Dhu-Raydan and Himyar asking for his help against the Sabaean kings.1

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  1. S. C. Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 73.

 


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