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Toppled Stela (with Modern Doorway to Visit Tomb Below), Aksum Stelae Park

fourth century CE (?) · Aksum Stelae Park, Tigray (Ethiopia)

Ancient · architecture

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Plate 1Toppled Stela (with Modern Doorway to Visit Tomb Below), Aksum Stelae Park, Tigray (Ethiopia), fourth century CE (?), limestone, original H 30 m (98 ft.).

© Mikael Muehlbauer 2016

Catalogue entry locator Printed p. 246, fig. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 243)

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Toppled Stela (with Modern Doorway to Visit Tomb Below), Aksum Stelae Park, Tigray (Ethiopia), fourth century CE (?), limestone, original H 30 m (98 ft.).Plate 1 · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2016 · Printed p. 246, fig. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 243)

What the record shows

A toppled Aksumite stela beside the modern doorway to the tomb below.

Date
fourth century CE (?)
Object type
Architecture
Recorded place
Aksum Stelae Park, Tigray (Ethiopia)
Holding
Aksum Stelae Park
Accession
fig. 1
Source locator
Printed p. 246, fig. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 243)
Source citation
Mikael Muehlbauer, “Ancient Ethiopian Architecture and Its Medieval Legacy,” in Ethiopia at the Crossroads, ed. Christine Sciacca (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023), pp. 245–257.