Nomadic Eastern Desert people (ancestral to the Beja) who pressed Roman and Nubian frontiers.
The Blemmyes as a political force in the Nile Valley were suppressed c. 452–453 CE when the Eastern Roman commander Maximinus (dux et praeses of the Thebaid) campaigned against them and the Nobatae and compelled them to sign a 100-year peace treaty at Philae; Emperor Justinian I definitively closed the Philae sanctuary in 537 CE under the local commander Narses, ending organised Blemmyan religious-political activity in the region.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Blemmyes — the shape you scrub through changes in 600 BC · 411 BC · 311 BC · 250 BC.
Covers post-Meroitic and medieval Nubia (Nobatia, Makuria, Alwa) and the Eastern Desert Blemmyes and Beja.
The late-Roman/Byzantine African frontier the Blemmyes raided (broad regional context).