The Great Stele (Stele 1), Aksum

Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

The largest of the Aksum stelae, 1994. It lies fallen and broken following the unsuccessful attempt to erect it in the mid-fourth century.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 15, fig. 16.

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Place: Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 15, fig. 16.
Subject date: c. 4th century AD
Type: architectural plate

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