Mavia: Arabia's Warrior Queen
The Ancients
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The Sources for Mavia
The main character of our poggas to day mavia or maia, and we can't mention this in our introductory talking. The name mavia does occur a handful of times, broadly speaking, in the arabic sources. But if we back up again to the inscriptions, it's really, really rare. Like, what other mavia could it be? And again, we have historians and scholars who have debated this. For now, the academic position is that this greek funerary inscription in northern syria is commemorating the death of our mavia in the year four 25.
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