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The stelae were probably carved and erected during the 4th century CE by subjects of the Kingdom of Aksum, an ancient Ethiopian civilization. Erection of stelae in Axum was a very old practice. Their function is supposed to be as "markers" for underground burial chambers.
The Kingdom of Aksum (Ge'ez: አክሱም, romanized: ʾÄksum; Sabaean: 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣, ʾkšm; Ancient Greek: Ἀξωμίτης, romanized: Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, and spanning present-day Djibouti and ...
The Northern Stelae Park in Axum in 2002, with King Ezana's Stele at the middle and the Great Stela lying broken. (The Obelisk of Axum was returned later.). This monument, properly termed a stele (hawilt or hawilti in the local Afroasiatic languages [which?]) was carved and erected in the 4th century by subjects of the Kingdom of Aksum, an ancient civilization focussed in the Ethiopian and ...
Axum, also spelled Aksum (/ ˈ ɑː k s uː m / ⓘ), is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents (as of 2015). [2] It is the site of the historic capital of the Aksumite Empire.
The Ezana Stone is an ancient stele still standing in modern-day Axum in Ethiopia, the centre of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum.This stone monument, that probably dates from the 4th century of the Christian era, documents the conversion of King Ezana to Christianity and his conquest of various neighbouring areas, including Meroë.
People from the kingdom of Aksum (2 C, 10 P) S. Axumite steles (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Kingdom of Aksum" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 ...
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According to an unpublished manuscript from Aksum, this king was a contemporary of Alexander the Great and asked for Greek technicians and engineers to build palaces, monuments and stelae, one of which was destroyed centuries later by Gudit. [21] Hande: No. 19 on Dillmann's list B. [20] [Za] Kawida: No. 9 on Dillmann's list A. [20] Reigned for ...