What the record shows
The 24 m second stele of Aksum, carved with false doors and window storeys; looted to Rome in 1937 and re-erected in the stelae field in 2008.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- The Obelisk of Aksum (Stele 2)
The 24 m second stele of Aksum, carved with false doors and window storeys; looted to Rome in 1937 and re-erected in the stelae field in 2008.
- Aksum obelisk
Aksum obelisk. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: This picture is captured in the summer of 2018. Photograph credited to Tesfawel.
- Obelisk of Axum
4th-century phonolite stele in Axum, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. Dated 300.
- AxumObelisk1
AxumObelisk1. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Axum (Roman) obelisk Photograph credited to O.Mustafin.
- AxumObelisk2
AxumObelisk2. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Аксумський (Римський) обеліск. Верхівка Photograph credited to O.Mustafin.
- AxumObelisk3
AxumObelisk3. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Аксумський (Римський) обеліск. Верхівка Photograph credited to O.Mustafin.
- AxumObelisk4
AxumObelisk4. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Аксумський (Римський) обеліск. Нижня частина Photograph credited to O.Mustafin.
- AxumObelisk5
AxumObelisk5. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Northern Stelae Park. The file description records: Аксумський ("третій") обеліск Photograph credited to O.Mustafin.
- Place
- Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia
- Date
- c. 4th century AD
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Holding
- Wikimedia Commons




