The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam — illustration 1, PDF page 36
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- Habesha History book corpus — The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
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- The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam; PDF page 36; embedded illustration 1, exact source rectangle 36.21, 52.81, 306.94, 294.77
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Figure 1. Drawing of the Adulis Th rone in its geographical setting, as preserved in three manuscripts of Cosmas Indicopleustes. Th is drawing is oriented with North at the bottom and South at the top. Hence the northermost part of the Gulf of Zula is located at the bottom, with, going upward to the South, Samidi, Adulis, and the customs station at Gabaza above it. Axum, in the South, appears in the upper right corner with the name given in Greek as Axômê. Th e artist has reproduced the opening words of the two epigraphical texts that Cosmas cites, and he has erroneously followed Cosmas in thinking all the remains a single Ptolemaic throne. In the top left a Greek label reads, “Road leading from Adulis to Axum,” and in the top right the label identifi es “Ethiopians on foot.” Reproduced from W. Wolska-Conus, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Topographie Chrétienne , vol. 1, Sources chrétiennes no. 141 (Paris, 1968), p. 367.
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