@article{Müller_2008, title={Abasener und Adulis}, volume={11}, url={https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/142}, DOI={10.15460/aethiopica.11.1.142}, abstractNote={<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 10.8pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;" class="AethiopicaSummaryAbs1"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The publication of the first volume of a new critical edition of the <em>Ethnica</em> of Stephanos of Byzantium gives occasion to enumerate the eleven toponyms on the Ethiopian side of the Erythraean Sea which are mentioned in this geographical lexicon. Furthermore an attempt is made to localize the Abasenoi, a tribe in Arabia, which are identical with the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif";">Ḥ</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">abašat, taking in account the agricultural products of their country. Concerning the harbour of Adulis, which is the origin of the </span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif";">ʿ</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">adawl</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif";">ī</span></em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Ludolfus","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-ships in early Arabic poetry, further testimonies of this town in literary sources are adduced and a plausible South-Arabian etymology of the name Adulis is proposed.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>}, number={1}, journal={Aethiopica}, author={Müller, Walter W.}, year={2008}, month={Jul.}, pages={41–47} }