What the record shows
The Great Stele of Aksum, at c. 33 m the largest monolith its makers ever attempted, carved as a thirteen-storey tower-house; it fell while being raised and lies broken across the stelae field.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- The Great Stele (Stele 1), Aksum
The Great Stele of Aksum, at c. 33 m the largest monolith its makers ever attempted, carved as a thirteen-storey tower-house; it fell while being raised and lies broken across the stelae field.
- Aksum, stele 1 (stele grande) 05
Aksum, stele 1 (stele grande) 05. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Aksum Stele n. 1 (The Large Stele). The file description records: Aksum Stele n. 1 (The Large Stele) Photograph credited to Sailko.
- Aksum, stele 1 (stele grande) 17 false finestre
Aksum, stele 1 (stele grande) 17 false finestre. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Aksum Stele n. 1 (The Large Stele). The file description records: Aksum Stele n. 1 (The Large Stele) Photograph credited to Sailko.
- Obelisk of Aksum Remains
Obelisk of Aksum Remains. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Obelisk of Aksum Remains Photograph credited to Allamiro.
- Obelisk of Aksum Remains2
Obelisk of Aksum Remains2. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Obelisk of Aksum Remains Photograph credited to Allamiro.
- Obelisk of Aksum Remains5
Obelisk of Aksum Remains5. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Obelisk of Aksum Remains Photograph credited to Allamiro.
- Obelisk of Aksum Remains4
Obelisk of Aksum Remains4. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Obelisk of Aksum Remains Photograph credited to Allamiro.
- Great Stele (Stela 1), Aksum
The largest of the Aksum stelae, 1994. It lies fallen and broken following the unsuccessful attempt to erect it in the mid-fourth century.
- 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. 15, fig. 16. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 30; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
