Ailymas
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The indigenous name must have sounded rather like 'Ailyma' , since the final -s is the index of nominative in Greek (still today a just Aylema exists among the tuareg, even if it is a feminine name).
The only historical source in this regard is Diodorus Siculus (XX, 17-18), who speaks of it about the wars of Agatocles of Syracuse against Carthage (Αίλύμαν τόν βασιλέα τών Λιβύων "Ailymas , king of Libi "). The term Libi was used in many meanings by the ancients, but here it seems to indicate the North African populations not subject to Carthage. Massinissa is also called βασιλέα τών Λιβύων from Polybius, III, 5.
When, in 310 BC, Agatocles brought the war to African soil, setting up bases near the present Tunis, then he pushed along the east coast of Tunisia, conquering Neapolis ([ [Nabeul]]) and besieging Hadrumetum ( Sousse). It was in this circumstance that he made an alliance with the indigenous king Ailymas.
But the alliance did not last long. Diodorus does not dwell on the reasons that led Ailymas to detach himself from Agatocles, but tells us that he was defeated and killed (it seems in the same 310 or at the beginning of 309 BC).
On the basis of historical data and knowledge regarding the order of succession of the Numidian rulers, G. Camps (1986) reconstructs the following genealogy which would connect Ailymas to the known rulers of a later period.
| X "re" (Ailymas?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| {{{, }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ ^ }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{. }}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Y "re" | {{{! }}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| {{{, }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ ^ }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{. }}} | {{{! }}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Z "king" | Zelalsen "suffet" | Naravas? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| {{{, }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ ^ }}} | {{{. }}} | {{{! }}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gaia "king" | Esalce | {{{! }}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| {{{! }}} | {{{, }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ - }}} | {{{ ^ }}} | {{{. }}} | {{{! }}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Massinissa "re" | Capussa "re" | {{{ THE }}} | Mezetulo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bibliography[edit]
- Gabriel Camps, voice "Ailymas" in Encyclopédie Berbère , fasc. 3, Aix-en-Provence, Edisud, 1986 pp. 325-6
- Stéphane Gsell, Histoire ancienne de l'Afrique du Nord , vol. III, Paris, Hachette, 1918
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