Puntite Historical Images

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Osmaniya Script

While Osmanya gained reasonably wide acceptance in Somalia and quickly produced a considerable body of literature, it proved difficult to spread among the population mainly due to stiff competition from the long-established Arabic script as well as the emerging Somali Latin alphabet developed by the Somali linguist, Shire Jama Ahmed, which was based on the Latin script.

Created by Prince Osman Yusuf Ali "Keenadiid", he was the son of the first king of Hobyo and brother of the second king of Hobyo.

 

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Stay tuned, next chapter is ancient history-Cape of Spices and the Land of Punt.

 

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Cape of Spices (1st and 3rd centuries CE)
Dal Udug comes from an ancient trading name, we used to export fragrant spices and goods across the world.

Mosylon aka Bosaso

was the most prominent emporium on the Red Sea coast, as outlined in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. With its large ships, it handled the bulk of the cinnamon trade arriving from the ports of ancient India. Dioscorides consequently noted that the city became known as the source of the best variety of the spice in the ancient world.[2] A specific species of cinnamon exported from the harbour was known as Mosyllitic.[3] Due to its high quality and rarity at the time in Ancient Rome, the imported cinnamon was typically deposited in the Romans' Royal Treasury.[4]

According to classical writers such as Pliny, the inhabitants of Mosylon imported flint glass and glass vessels from Ancient Egypt, unripe grapes from Diospolis, unmilled cloths for the Berberi markets, including tunics and cloths manufactured at Arsinoe, as well as wine and tin. The main export items were gums, tortoise shells, incense and ivory.[5] Pliny also indicated that, en route to the cinnamon hub of Mosylon, the Egyptian Pharaoh Sesostris led his forces passed the Port of Isis.[1] The latter ancient local commercial center is believed to correspond with the town of Bulhar, situated near Zeila.[6]


Opone aka Xaafuun (Hafun)

Ras Hafun in northern Somalia is believed to be the location of the ancient trade center of Opone. Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Persian Gulf pottery has been recovered from the site by an archaeological team from the University of Michigan. Opone is in the thirteenth entry of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, which in part states:

"And then, after sailing four hundred stadia along a promontory, toward which place the current also draws you, there is another market-town called Opone, into which the same things are imported as those already mentioned, and in it the greatest quantity of cinnamon is produced, (the arebo and moto), and slaves of the better sort, which are brought to Egypt in increasing numbers; and a great quantity of tortoiseshell, better than that found elsewhere."

— Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Chap.13[10]
In ancient times, Opone operated as a port of call for merchants from Phoenicia, Egypt, Greece, Persia, Yemen, Nabataea, Azania, the Roman Empire and elsewhere, as it possessed a strategic location along the coastal route from Azania to the Red Sea. Merchants from as far afield as Indonesia and Malaysia passed through Opone, trading spices, silks and other goods, before departing south for Azania or north to Yemen or Egypt on the trade routes that spanned the length of the Indian Ocean's rim. As early as 50 CE, Opone was well known as a center for the cinnamon trade, along with the trading of cloves and other spices, ivory, exotic animal skins and incense.

 

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Opone continued.

Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Persian Gulf pottery has been recovered from the site by an archaeological team from the University of Michigan. In the 1970s, Neville Chittick, a Britisharchaeologist, initiated the British-Somali expedition where he and his Somali colleagues encountered remains of ancient drystone walls, houses with courtyards, and the location of the old harbour.

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During Siyad Barre's Government, archaelogists excavated parts of Puntland and found ancient coins, underground burial sites and pottery linking the state to the ancient land of Punt.

 

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Cape Guardafui home of ancient Qandala

Known in ancient times as the Cape of Spices, it was an important place for the ancient cinnamon and Indian spice trade.

Lighthouse souvenir left by Italian invaders.

 

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Qandala, not sure of exact time.

 

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Map of Haafuun, 1885

 

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Elephant Rock, Qandala, published in a magazine in 1860

 

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Nomadic dwelling, Guardafui circa 1860?

 

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Puntite lady.

 

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Suldaan Keenadiid

 

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Swords, Sandals & Spears

 

[DuctTape]

Amazing sxb
No idea where you're getting these images from but keep them coming

 

[SIR-RIGHTEOUS]

Amazing sxb
No idea where you're getting these images from but keep them coming

Thanks for following saaxiib.

They're mostly from Puntite.com, a wealth of images and info on that site.

 

[DuctTape]

Thanks for following saaxiib.

They're mostly from Puntite.com, a wealth of images and info on that site.

Wallahi the fact that we are so interested and surprised by these images shows how scarce our knowledge and pride of our historical past is
Keep up the good work

 

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Absolutely no trolling in this thread. It's a historical picture thread. Not the place to do that.

 

[DrippinglyWet]

Not trying to escalate but these pictures were taken by Charles Guillain who visited the North - West Somalia Harari & Berbera Merka & Mogadishu and Sool and Sanaag just pointing out, he was one of the first people to think that The land of punt was in Somalia

 

[Hassan Garguute Buldanana]

Puntite history

 

[WiilWaalan]

Puntite history

I'm very proud. We have such a rich history.

 

[Hassan Garguute Buldanana]

I'm very proud. We have such a rich history.

Indeed brother