What the record shows
The 21 m third stele of Aksum, the largest still standing where its makers raised it, carved as a nine-storey tower with a false door at its base.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- King Ezana's Stele (Stele 3), Aksum
The 21 m third stele of Aksum, the largest still standing where its makers raised it, carved as a nine-storey tower with a false door at its base.
- Aksum, stele 3 detta di re ezana, l'unica mai crollata 01
Aksum, stele 3 detta di re ezana, l'unica mai crollata 01. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Aksum Stele n. 3 (King Ezana's Stele). The file description records: Aksum Stele n. 3 (King Ezana's Stele) Photograph credited to Sailko.
- Aksum, stele 3 detta di re ezana, l'unica mai crollata 08 stele minori
Aksum, stele 3 detta di re ezana, l'unica mai crollata 08 stele minori. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Aksum Stele n. 3 (King Ezana's Stele). The file description records: Aksum Stele n. 3 (King Ezana's Stele) Photograph credited to Sailko.
- Aksum Stela 3 (Ezana's Stele)
Aksum, the upper part of Stela 3, 1993. The body of the stela is carved in representation of a multi-storeyed building with horizontal beams, monkey-heads and windows. In the hollow at the apex there was formerly a metal plaque, held in place by iron rods which still survive.
- Place
- Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia
- Date
- c. 4th century AD
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 14, fig. 14. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 29; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
