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Francis Anfray · Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. V, p. 42a–43b
Y. (ይሐ) is a settlement in northern Ethiopia, in the Central Zone of the Tǝgray region, ca. 17 km to the north-east of ↗ʿAdwa (and ca. 40 km from ↗Aksum). Its primary importance as an archaeo- logical site whose findings, including construc- tions, stone ↗insc
Atlas place
Early 1st millennium BCE · Central Tigray highlands
Yǝḥa is the center of the kingdom of DM`T, a civilization that existed a thousand years before the great Aksumite Empire.
Inscription
RIÉ 7 · Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE (DASI Period A) · Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia; altar now in the National Archaeological Museum, Addis Ababa
A fragmentary royal altar text, partly restored from RIÉ 1, associates Wʿrn Ḥywt with Yeha but does not name DʿMT.
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 10
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 11
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 12
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 4
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 6
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 7
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Habesha History book corpus — Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia
Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba' and D'MT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia — illustrated page 8
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2006 · Yeha · David W. Phillipson · David W. Phillipson — Ancient Churches of Ethiopia (2009)
10 Yeha, carved stone frieze of stylised ibex, 2006. Originally part of the Great Temple, it is now built into the west wall of the modern church.
Illustrated artifact
Yeha, Ethiopia
Illustrated artifact
Yeha, Ethiopia
Illustrated artifact
Wikimedia Commons
Yeha, Ethiopia The file page records 2018-11-17 08:49:10 as the date of the photograph, not of the object.
Manuscript art
Wikimedia Commons
Yeha, Ethiopia
Manuscript art
Wikimedia Commons
Yeha, Ethiopia
Manuscript art
Wikimedia Commons
Yeha, Ethiopia
Manuscript art
Wikimedia Commons
Yeha, Ethiopia
Illustrated artifact
6th-1st century BCE
Yeha, Ethiopia
Illustrated artifact
Wikimedia Commons
Yeha, Ethiopia The file page records 2018-11-17 08:45:30 as the date of the photograph, not of the object.