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Henry Salt - Inscription found at Axum. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Ethiopic-script inscriptions. The file description records: Plate 16, Inscription found at Axum, (by mistake Acum engraved on the plate). Photograph credited to Henry Salt. Salt’s published plate transcribes the Greek inscription beginning ΑΕΙΖΑΝΑΣ; the accompanying transcription and translation identify ʿEzana. EAE dates ʿEzana’s Greek royal-inscription group to the first half of the 4th century CE.
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Original catalogue wording
Henry Salt - Inscription found at Axum. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Ethiopic-script inscriptions. The file description records: Plate 16, Inscription found at Axum, (by mistake Acum engraved on the plate). Photograph credited to Henry Salt.
Source classification: inscription
- Date
- First half of the 4th century CE
- Object type
- Inscriptions & stelae
- Recorded place
- Ethiopia
- Holding institution
- Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt Vol. 3, page 181